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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Zitkala-Sa resign her position of secretary-treasurer of the Society of American Indians?
(a) Her family required more of her time.
(b) She was too ill to serve.
(c) She had more creative pursuits now.
(d) They elected a peyote majority leader.

2. Why did David lose his job at the Indian Bureau?
(a) He stole some money.
(b) The job was given to a white man.
(c) He came in drunk after lunch one day.
(d) He was late too many times.

3. To what state did Zitkala-Sa and her husband move after their marriage?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) California.
(c) Utah.
(d) Indiana.

4. The white settlement in #127 was how many miles from the Ute reservation?
(a) 150.
(b) 3.
(c) 500.
(d) 25.

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

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

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

8. Ohiya's children can be described as ______________ in this chapter.
(a) vivacious.
(b) studious.
(c) undisciplined.
(d) cruel.

9. Zitkala-Sa protested the use of peyote because ________________________.
(a) it was easy to get.
(b) it caused cancer.
(c) it was addictive.
(d) it was toxic.

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

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

12. Who did Gertrude marry when she was 26?
(a) Raymond Telephause Bonnin.
(b) Robert Lopez.
(c) Thomas Marshall.
(d) Carlos Montezuma.

13. Zitkala-Sa's name meant _________________.
(a) red bird.
(b) black crow.
(c) little turtle.
(d) mourning dove.

14. What fib did Zitkala-Sa tell the government in Washington?
(a) Her little brother was massacred at Wounded Knee.
(b) Her father was full-blooded Indian.
(c) Her mother was captured by the Sioux Indians.
(d) Her mother was killed by white soldiers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed since Gertrude was home at the Yankton Reservation?

2. Gertrude and her husband headed to a reservation located in which state?

3. What was peyote?

4. Gertrude wrote an article which appeared in which publication?

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

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