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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which famous people did Tate tell Gertrude she saw?
(a) Gilchrest and Monnin.
(b) Lewis and Clark.
(c) Clemons and Tate.
(d) Jefferson and Adams.

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

3. What did the Indian children serve as when they were sent to live with white families?
(a) Stepchildren.
(b) Foster children.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Guests.

4. Who stared at Gertrude and the other Indian children?
(a) The train conductor.
(b) White people.
(c) The Indian men.
(d) The nuns.

5. What did the devil in Gertrude's dream symbolize?
(a) Her father.
(b) The president.
(c) The headmaster.
(d) The white man.

6. The U.S. government forced Tate to send David to _____________________.
(a) another reservation.
(b) church.
(c) a hospital.
(d) boarding school.

7. In what year did Gertrude return home from the second boarding school?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1921.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1865.

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

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

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

11. Gertrude's playmates at the boarding school were Judewin and _____________.
(a) Tatakin.
(b) Totowin.
(c) Tate.
(d) Mahalo.

12. In what state was Gertrude's second boarding school located?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Montana.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Oklahoma.

13. How old is Gertrude in the chapter, "The Returned Student"?
(a) 15.
(b) 20.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

14. How did the boarding school make money off the Indian children?
(a) They made them bead moccasins.
(b) They made them perform native dances.
(c) They sold their braids.
(d) They made them sew blankets.

15. The Yankton Indians were part of which Indian nation?
(a) Chippewa.
(b) Lakota.
(c) Cheyenne.
(d) Sioux.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which state was the college in #84 located?

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

3. What is a tipi?

4. What role did Cloud Elk have in the tribe?

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

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