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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe the character in #21?
(a) Greedy.
(b) Angry.
(c) Creative.
(d) Helpful

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

3. What role did Cloud Elk have in the tribe?
(a) Medicine man.
(b) Warrior.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Chief.

4. The older boys at the school worked as what?
(a) Mechanics.
(b) Butchers.
(c) Janitors.
(d) Farmers.

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

6. What image did Gertrude scratch out in the Bible?
(a) The devil's eyes.
(b) Moses parting the Red Sea.
(c) God descending on clouds.
(d) Jesus with the little children.

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

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

9. Which Indian chief was murdered on December 15, 1890?
(a) Crazy Horse.
(b) Sitting Bull.
(c) Geronimo.
(d) Tecumseh.

10. Gertrude had a bad dream in which _________________ came to get Tate and her guest.
(a) the headmaster.
(b) the soldiers.
(c) the devil.
(d) ghosts.

11. Why did Gertrude cry at the boarding school?
(a) She was hungry.
(b) She was tired.
(c) She wanted her mother.
(d) She was ill.

12. What is the meaning of Zitkala-Sa?
(a) Mountaintop.
(b) Wise owl.
(c) Red bird.
(d) Blue skies.

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

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

15. 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 sedated her.
(d) They waited until she was asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous people did Tate tell Gertrude she saw?

2. What was Gertrude's last name as a girl?

3. What did the people in #12 wrap a newborn baby in during their visit with Tate's tribe?

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

5. Who was Prairie Flower's ill husband?

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