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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Gertrude was born on February 22 in what year?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1919.

4. What was the name of the Indian agency where Tate and the others received their government food rations?
(a) Greenwood.
(b) Green River.
(c) Greenbrook.
(d) Greenville.

5. The Federal agents took away Indian children as young as ___________________.
(a) five.
(b) four.
(c) seven.
(d) two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children slept in each bed at the boarding house?

2. What is a winyan?

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

4. Why did so many of the Indian children have chronic health problems or die?

5. What last name was given to Gertrude?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Captain Richard Henry Pratt develop the idea to remove Indian infants from their homes and transfer them to the homes of white people and how did this plan extend into reality?

2. How did Gertrude Bonnin get her name, and what would she change it to later in her life?

3. How did the Indian children's loneliness exhibit with them physically?

4. Describe what you can recall about the story of Prairie Flower and Cloud Elk.

5. In what ways did Red Apple Country represent the white man's world to the Indian children?

6. How was Gertrude able to attend college in Indiana?

7. Why did Gertrude experience an identity crisis in her pre-teen years?

8. In what ways did Tate show Gertrude how to be a strong woman?

9. How does the story of Prairie Flower and Cloud Elk foreshadow Gertrude's life in white society?

10. What was Gertrude's experience on the train headed to the boarding school?

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