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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. Which Indians were the richest people in the world?
(a) The Osages.
(b) The Dakotas.
(c) The Crees.
(d) The Potawatomis.

2. Who wrote the document entitled "Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians"?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Zitkala-Sa and Raymond.
(c) Richard Henry Pratt.
(d) Zitkala-Sa and others.

3. Ruthless men swindled money from the Utes by selling __________________-.
(a) gin.
(b) peyote.
(c) wine.
(d) guns.

4. Zitkala-Sa told the government that Sitting Bull was her ___________________.
(a) brother.
(b) grandfather.
(c) godfather.
(d) uncle.

5. Who was the main character in Zitkala-Sa's opera?
(a) En-tee-tee-ueh.
(b) Coyote.
(c) Ohiya.
(d) Kee-lau-naw.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the white settlement where Zitkala-Sa and her family lived in 1913?

2. Which one of Zitkala-Sa's former boyfriends started the Society of American Indians?

3. What was Zitkala-Sa's husband's name?

4. What did Zitkala-Sa love about the white world?

5. Zitkala-Sa died on January 26 in what year?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major success did Zitkala-Sa have for the Ute Indians several years after her death and what was her legacy to other Indian rights activists who would come after her?

2. Explain how Zitkala-Sa's name meaning Red Bird symbolized both her life and afterlife.

3. Why did peyote represent a lack of control that Zitkala-Sa had in both her Indian and white worlds?

4. What was Zitkala-Sa's opinion of peyote?

5. Explain the cultural conflict Zitkala-Sa experienced no matter where she was?

6. What was the main problem facing the Ute Indians?

7. What did the U.S. government do with the tribal land and how did David fare in the action?

8. How did Zitkala-Sa reconnect with Carlos Montezuma in Boston?

9. What is peyote, and how did the Indians use it?

10. Why did Zitkala-Sa separate herself from the Ute Indians?

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