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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Tate have?
(a) 9.
(b) 14.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

2. A Quaker woman offered to pay for Gertrude's education at which school?
(a) Duke.
(b) Harvard.
(c) Earlham College.
(d) University of Detroit.

3. Where did Gertrude return to teach in 1891?
(a) Apple Valley school.
(b) White's boarding school.
(c) Washington school.
(d) The Yankton reservation.

4. What was Gertrude ordered to mash one day?
(a) Sweet potatoes.
(b) Turnips.
(c) Apples.
(d) Potatoes.

5. What was the only way the staff could cut Gertrude's hair?
(a) They tied her to a chair.
(b) They threatened to starve her.
(c) They waited until she was asleep.
(d) They sedated her.

6. The Federal agent told Gertrude that she could have as much as she wanted of what?
(a) Peaches.
(b) Apples.
(c) Bananas.
(d) Nuts.

7. What did Gertrude and her friends do that the headmistress did not want them to do?
(a) Played in the snow.
(b) Wasted their food.
(c) Flirted with the boys.
(d) Picked unripe apples.

8. What did the girls wear at the boarding school?
(a) Long shirt.
(b) Stiff dresses.
(c) Overalls.
(d) Jeans and shirt.

9. At the boarding school, there were cruel and unusual punishments such as whippings and ____________________.
(a) starvation.
(b) kneeling on raw grits.
(c) solitary confinement.
(d) body mutilation.

10. What did the Federal agents do to force the Indians to give up their children?
(a) Withheld money.
(b) Withheld their food rations.
(c) Burned their villages.
(d) Raped the women.

11. What did Gertrude observe that was important to the Quaker teachers?
(a) Religious fervor.
(b) Higher education.
(c) Pacifism.
(d) Female equality.

12. Who is Tate?
(a) A Sioux chief.
(b) Gertrude's mother.
(c) A young warrior.
(d) The president's wife.

13. Which of the following was NOT something the government promised the Indians?
(a) Food.
(b) Money.
(c) Liquor.
(d) Livestock.

14. Why did Gertrude cry on the train?
(a) She realized she had left her mother.
(b) She had a bad sunburn.
(c) Someone took her bag of possessions.
(d) She was getting the flu.

15. A white woman tossed Gertrude around like ______________.
(a) a rug.
(b) a rag.
(c) an animal.
(d) a doll.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the man in #24?

2. What did some of the children at the boarding school sneak out to do?

3. Who stared at Gertrude and the other Indian children?

4. How did Gertrude travel to the boarding school?

5. Like many Indian children who attended boarding school, Gertrude suffered __________________.

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