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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Black Hills were known to the Sioux as a holy place called ______________.
(a) Pa Sapa.
(b) Koyas.
(c) Bear Butte.
(d) Sioko.

2. What more than tripled in Ohio from 1828 to 1850?
(a) Railroads.
(b) Towns.
(c) Population.
(d) Newspapers and periodicals.

3. In Chapter12, how many times a year might Crazy Horse go on a buffalo hunt?
(a) Two or three.
(b) Five or six.
(c) One.
(d) As many as possible.

4. What fellow West Point friend did Custer congratulate on his successes in the Confederate artillery?
(a) Gimlet Lea.
(b) Austin Blair.
(c) George Yates.
(d) John Pelham.

5. When did Custer enter West Point Military Academy?
(a) July, 1857.
(b) June, 1860.
(c) August, 1859.
(d) September, 1858.

6. How did Custer spend his teenager years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Going to school.
(b) Playing practical jokes.
(c) Trying to do something and be somebody.
(d) Competing against others.

7. Who wrote to Custer, "...I had to weep for joy that the recollection was sweet in your memory"?
(a) His mother.
(b) His sister, Lydia.
(c) His first girlfriend, Mary.
(d) His wife, Libbie.

8. What is Pennsylvania Dutch?
(a) German immigrants from the Rhineland.
(b) Dutch immigrants from the Rhineland.
(c) Dutch immigrants from Germany.
(d) Dutch immigrants who first settled in Pennsylvania.

9. Who said "fighting for fun is rare"?
(a) General Horace Porter.
(b) Colonel Theodore Lyman.
(c) General Grant.
(d) General Custer.

10. In Chapter 11, who on Custer's household staff took care of the horses?
(a) Joseph Fought.
(b) Johnnie Cisco.
(c) Eliza.
(d) Emerson.

11. In 1854, who led four Brules in seeking revenge for Conquering Bear's death?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Brave Bear.
(c) Spotted Tail.
(d) Old Man Afraid.

12. What year was George Armstrong Custer born?
(a) 1835.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1841.
(d) 1839.

13. Who said to give the Indian "a love for exclusive property"?
(a) Secretary of War, Henry Knox.
(b) Vermont lawyer, Thomas Farnham.
(c) Founding father, Samuel Adams.
(d) President Andrew Jackson.

14. How many times during their lives did Crazy Horse and Custer come in contact with each other?
(a) Two times.
(b) Never.
(c) Four times.
(d) One time.

15. In Chapter 7, what was constricting in Custer's life?
(a) Customs.
(b) Expectations.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the "loafers" referred to in Chapter 9?

2. In Chapter 3, what aspect of Sioux life would Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, have called the "science of the concrete"?

3. What old friend did Custer persuade General Pleasonton to give him as as aide?

4. After what skirmish did Custer call the Civil War a "Glorious War"?

5. How many Sioux were estimated to be at the great council at Bear Butte in Chapter 4?

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