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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the Oglalas call the road that the settlers knew as "The Oregon Trail"?
(a) The Solder's Trail.
(b) The Holy Road.
(c) Laramie Trail.
(d) The White Man's Road.

3. How did Crazy Horse spend his teenage years according to Chapter 7?
(a) Observing white soldiers.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Becoming a warrior.
(d) Seeking a vision.

4. According to a letter Custer wrote to his sister, what percentage of students at West Point failed?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Thirty-five.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was George Armstrong Custer born?

2. What animal slept with Custer at night in Chapter 11?

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

4. How many Native Americans made up the decoy party after camping on July 24, 1865?

5. In Chapter 7, what was constricting in Custer's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did De Crevecoeur have in mind when he wrote, "The American is a new man who acts on new principles"?

2. What was the demerit policy of West Point when Custer attended? How many demerits did he regularly receive?

3. What differences did General McClellan have against the Lincoln administration?

4. In Chapter 3, why was Curly encouraged to look up to young warriors? In what way did he not?

5. Who is Francis Parkman, and why is he significant in the beginning chapters?

6. In Chapter 11, why does the author describe Custer as a romantic?

7. How did the Cheyenne and Sioux plan for the big expedition against the settlers and soldiers in the summer of 1865?

8. What did the chiefs' society that resumed in 1865 involve and what was Crazy Horse's role?

9. In what ways did Custer and Crazy Horse stand out in a crowd?

10. What type of furniture did Custer have at West Point?

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