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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Washington D.C. 1917 to 1938: Despair; Red Bird's Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What gave Zitkala-Sa the cultural joy she most craved?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The white culture.
(c) Her son.
(d) Her Indian home.

2. What Indian tribe lived on the reservation in #111?
(a) Ute.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) Cheyenne.
(d) Sioux.

3. What was the name of the boarding school?
(a) White's Manual Labor Institute.
(b) White's School for Indian Integration.
(c) White's Christian Day School.
(d) White's Boarding School.

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

5. When did Gertrude realize she had made a mistake by going to the boarding school?
(a) When she was on the train.
(b) On the carriage ride.
(c) During her first night there.
(d) During the first weekend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the devil in Gertrude's dream symbolize?

2. The baby in #13 grew up to sign a treaty with the U.S. government to give away how much Indian land?

3. What was the membership fee for Indians to belong to the National Council of American Indians?

4. Which were the only Indians who received fertile land when the U.S. government divided up the tribal land?

5. Zitkala-Sa told the government that Sitting Bull was her ___________________.

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