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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who said, "When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood."?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Roman Nose
(c) Crazy Horse
(d) Red Cloud

2. Who receives the credit for naming Native Americans "Indians?"
(a) Marco Polo
(b) Andrew Jackson
(c) John Cabot
(d) Christopher Columbus

3. What event in January of 1863 causes Cochise to go back on the war path?
(a) The murder of his wife
(b) He is lied to at a treaty conference
(c) The capture and death of Mangus Colorado
(d) He is recaptured and imprisoned

4. Donehogawa's "Christian name"?
(a) Brigham Young
(b) John Michael Smith
(c) Ely Samuel Parker
(d) William Tecumseh Sherman

5. What do the white men call these 5 Sioux chiefs?
(a) The Laramie Loafers
(b) The Outlaws of Cheyenne
(c) The Friends of Lincoln
(d) The Sand Creek survivors

6. Where does Red Cloud insist his people should be allowed to trade?
(a) Fort Wise
(b) Fort Laramie
(c) Fort Connor
(d) Fort Snelling

7. Who was chief of the Wdewkantons?
(a) Sitting Bull
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Little Crow
(d) Crazy Horse

8. What Cheyennes warrior warns an Arapaho village of an impending attack by Connor's men?
(a) Little Tree
(b) Standing Deer
(c) Dull Knife
(d) Little Horse

9. Who was chief for the Ottawa tribe?
(a) Caddilac
(b) Crazy Horse
(c) Tecumseh
(d) Pontiac

10. Which warrior refuses to attend thus stopping the talks?
(a) Man Afraid of his Horses
(b) Red Cloud
(c) Roman Nose
(d) Dull Knife

11. What was located between the Pecos mountains and the Rio Grande?
(a) Bosque Redondo
(b) Wounded Knee
(c) Washita
(d) The Little Big Horn

12. Some Cheyennes and Arapaho Indians move into what part of Kansas to hunt?
(a) Black Hills
(b) Powder River
(c) Little Big Horn Mountain
(d) Smoky Hill

13. Cochise finally reaches an agreement with what US General?
(a) General Howard
(b) General Hood
(c) General Wise
(d) General Taylor

14. What important document did Donehogawa write?
(a) The treaty with the Sioux
(b) The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War
(c) The treaty that ended Black Hawk's war
(d) The surrender terms at Appomattox

15. When Cochise is imprisoned for something he did not do what is his reaction?
(a) He escapes and kills three white men
(b) He has no reaction
(c) He escapes and moves to Mexico
(d) He attacks the court judge

Short Answer Questions

1. At what fort did several Indian tribes sign a treaty reducing their lands?

2. What fort do the Navajos attack in retaliation for troops destroying crops?

3. What fort is involved in Little Crow's War?

4. What does the term "Iron Horse" refer to?

5. How many Indian nations comprised the Iroquios?

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