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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 Gertrude travel to the boarding school?
(a) Carriage.
(b) Train.
(c) Horseback.
(d) Wagon.

2. When did Gertrude realize she had made a mistake by going to the boarding school?
(a) On the carriage ride.
(b) During her first night there.
(c) When she was on the train.
(d) During the first weekend.

3. What was the name of the man in #24?
(a) Man of Many Winters.
(b) Man of Big Heart.
(c) Man of Empty Words.
(d) Man of Little Ears.

4. Why did so many of the Indian children have chronic health problems or die?
(a) They were always out in inclement weather.
(b) They were weak from starvation.
(c) There was no medicine.
(d) They did not get enough Vitamin C.

5. How many children slept in each bed at the boarding house?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the cutting of Gertrude's braids symbolize?

2. What was forbidden to the Indian children?

3. How old was Gertrude when she wrote a scathing article in "Atlantic Monthly" regarding the mistreatment of Indians?

4. Which of the following does NOT describe the character in #21?

5. What did Gertrude and her friends do that the headmistress did not want them to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many times was Tate married, and how many children did she have?

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

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

4. What shocked Gertrude about punishment meted out on Judewin for playing in the snow?

5. 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?

6. What sorts of punishment were handed out to the Indian children at the boarding school and how did Gertrude get revenge one day?

7. What were some of the shocking experiences of Gertrude and the other children on the first day of school?

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

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

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

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