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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Into what type of boarding school did Zitkala-Sa place her son?
(a) A college preparatory school.
(b) An Episcopalian boarding school.
(c) A government boarding school.
(d) A Benedictine boarding school.

2. How many children did Ohiya have?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

3. In what year did the U.S. government finally award the Utes their $3 million?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1972.

4. What did David do that helped with the family's prosperity?
(a) Hunt.
(b) Scout.
(c) Trap.
(d) Farm.

5. Who was Ohiya?
(a) Zitkala-Sa's son.
(b) Zitkala-Sa's brother.
(c) Zitkala-Sa's husband.
(d) Zitkala-Sa's father.

6. Why did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond travel around in the chapter entitled, "Despair"?
(a) They looked for a good place to start a school.
(b) They looked for some land to purchase.
(c) They were covering the West for a Boston publication.
(d) They documented Indian injustices.

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

8. Tate's family did not have _________________ for food.
(a) interest.
(b) cooking utensils.
(c) money.
(d) appetites.

9. In what state was the school in #139 located?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Michigan.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Pennsylvania.

10. What happened to the land belonging to Indians who were murdered?
(a) It was given to their families.
(b) It was given to white settlers.
(c) It was given to white guardians.
(d) It was given to Negro slaves.

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

12. At which school did Gertrude study music?
(a) Boston Conservatory.
(b) Cincinnati Conservatory of the Arts.
(c) The Julliard School.
(d) New York Arts Academy.

13. How many years have passed since Gertrude was home at the Yankton Reservation?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

14. Zitkala-Sa wanted peyote to be ____________________.
(a) outlawed.
(b) legalized.
(c) cheaper.
(d) regulated.

15. Which of the following is NOT something the white men did to the Osage Indians?
(a) They returned a parcel of their land.
(b) They kept their money.
(c) They stole their money.
(d) They forced them to live in extreme poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the character in #132 have to dance a sun dance in the opera?

2. What was the state of Zitkala-Sa and Raymond's financial situation?

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

4. The Utes won a settlement from the U.S. government in the amount of ______________ for their land.

5. In one example of how the whites swindled the Osage Indians, one woman was entitled to $15,000 a year but her white guardian gave her only __________ a week.

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