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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. 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 sold their braids.
(d) They made them bead moccasins.

2. In Indian society, the elders told stories to teach ______________ to the young people.
(a) morality.
(b) love.
(c) aggression.
(d) fear.

3. Gertrude enjoyed the stories about which Indian character?
(a) Watanahu.
(b) Tecumseh.
(c) Iktomi.
(d) Powhatan.

4. In 1897, Gertrude taught at the most famous Indian boarding school in America located in which state?
(a) Indiana.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Michigan.

5. Who is Tate?
(a) A Sioux chief.
(b) A young warrior.
(c) The president's wife.
(d) Gertrude's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Gertrude ordered to mash one day?

2. What were the children not allowed to wear at the boarding school?

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

4. The Indian children did not have immunity to ______________________.

5. What is a tipi?

Short Essay Questions

1. Ironically, what did Gertrude do in 1891 when she returned to White's boarding school?

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

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

4. Was Gertrude conflicted while experiencing an identity crisis as a girl?

5. What publication did Gertrude write for when she was 24, and what was the content of her article?

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

7. Why did the Indian children at the boarding school get sick and what happened to them during serious illnesses?

8. What did Gertrude recall about what her mother said about people who had their hair cut off and what did Gertrude do to try to avoid losing her own hair?

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

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

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