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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. What animals were slaughtered by the white hunters?
(a) Horses.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Goats.
(d) Deer.

2. What is a winyan?
(a) A wound.
(b) A bird.
(c) A brook.
(d) A woman.

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

4. What did some of the children at the boarding school sneak out to do?
(a) Went to town.
(b) Post letters.
(c) Pick apples.
(d) Swim in the creek.

5. What was Gertrude's last name as a girl?
(a) Smith.
(b) Simpson.
(c) Simons.
(d) Simmons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the headmistress do to Totowin for playing in the snow?

2. Where did the Federal agent tell Gertrude the boarding school was located?

3. The Federal agents took away Indian children as young as ___________________.

4. In what state was Gertrude's second boarding school located?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the devil in the Bible stories symbolize for Gertrude?

2. Explain how the physical abuse of the Indian children was the beginning of Gertrude's rebellious nature and the beginning of her life as Zitkala-Sa.

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

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

5. How did Gertrude begin her fight for both women and Indian rights?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. What two tragic events occurred for Indian people in December of 1890?

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

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

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