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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Santana and Big Tree go to attend peace talks?
(a) Fort Richardson
(b) St. Louis
(c) Fort Laramie
(d) Washington

2. When does Sitting Bull return to the United States?
(a) 1865
(b) 1905
(c) 1881
(d) 1805

3. What Indian tribe lived in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado?
(a) The Blackfoot
(b) The Comanches
(c) The Crow
(d) The Utes

4. What happens when the US soldiers confront two Kiowa chiefs, Santana and Lone Wolf?
(a) They kill 50 soldiers
(b) They retreat to the Badlands
(c) They are immediately arrested
(d) They are killed

5. What government group did the Nez Perces help in 1805?
(a) The National Geographic Survey
(b) The Lewis and Clark Expedition
(c) The US Army Expeditiary Force
(d) The National Park Service

6. Of the 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 to 1874 how many were killed by the Indian tribes?
(a) 1,000,000
(b) 3,000,000
(c) 2,000,000
(d) 150,000

7. What item of clothing are followers of the Ghost Dance supposed to possess?
(a) Ghost shirts
(b) Ghost gloves
(c) Ghost hats
(d) Ghost shoes

8. Who is Big Snake?
(a) Standing Bear's father
(b) Standing Bear's brother
(c) Standing Bear's Son
(d) Standing Bear's killer

9. What event caused problems for the Indians who were living in the Black Hills?
(a) A train is built through the Black Hills
(b) Some of the Indians started raiding white settlements
(c) Gold was discovered
(d) General Custer decides to start arresting Indians

10. Eventually the remaining Cheyennes are allowed to move to a reservation on what River?
(a) The Powder River
(b) The Platte River
(c) The Missouri River
(d) The Tongue River

11. In 1873 why does Captain Jack decide to fight the white soldiers?
(a) To protect Hooker Jim
(b) The soldiers had killed his family
(c) To protect his sacred homeland
(d) To protect his sister

12. What are the Kiowa's forced to do by the white soldiers?
(a) Hunt buffalo for white settlers
(b) Farm
(c) Turn in their family members who are warriors
(d) Speak English

13. In 1868 the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Arapaho, and Comanche are ordered to do what?
(a) Surrender at Fort Cobb
(b) Return to a reservation
(c) Surrender at Fort Laramie
(d) Move to Canada

14. How many soldiers survived Custer's Last Stand?
(a) 10
(b) 25
(c) 0
(d) 2

15. Where does Sitting Bull go in defiance of the US government?
(a) Idaho
(b) Canada
(c) Utah
(d) Red Cloud's reservation

Short Answer Questions

1. When some of the Cheyennes are allowed to go hunt buffalo, what do they find?

2. What does Captain Jack agree to do to officer Canby if he will not agree to allow the Modoc to return to their homelands?

3. In what year was the last peace conference held, before the battle of the Little Big Horn?

4. When does Geronimo die?

5. Who is killed for Hooker Jim's crimes?

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