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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 was the name of the white settlement where Zitkala-Sa and her family lived in 1913?
(a) Howard.
(b) Daly.
(c) Gibbons.
(d) Vernal.

2. Why did Zitkala-Sa not attend the last hearing regarding the Osage Indians?
(a) She had a scheduling conflict.
(b) It was too far to travel.
(c) She was too ill.
(d) She was afraid of being murdered.

3. Gertrude and her husband headed to a reservation located in which state?
(a) Montana.
(b) Utah.
(c) Wyoming.
(d) Texas.

4. To what city did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond return after their travels in "Despair"?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) New York.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

5. The Utes won a settlement from the U.S. government in the amount of ______________ for their land.
(a) $1 million.
(b) $10 million.
(c) $3 million.
(d) $50 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who lived near the Indian village?

2. What fib did Zitkala-Sa tell the government in Washington?

3. Why did David lose his job at the Indian Bureau?

4. Tate's family did not have _________________ for food.

5. How did Zitkala-Sa feel about the Ute reservation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the cultural conflict Zitkala-Sa experienced no matter where she was?

2. What was the dire situation Gertrude found when she returned to the Yankton Reservation after being gone for six years?

3. Why was Zitkala-Sa so conflicted about where to live--Washington D.C. or the reservation?

4. Why did peyote represent a lack of control that Zitkala-Sa had in both her Indian and white worlds?

5. What did Zitkala-Sa's opera signify to the world regarding the integration of Indian and white cultures?

6. How did Zitkala-Sa's heritage, especially the Iktomi story, help equip her to manage in the white man's world?

7. Why did Zitkala-Sa write a report entitled "Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians" and what effect did it have on changes being made for the Osage Indians?

8. What were the conditions on the Uintah Reservation that Zitkala-Sa wanted to escape?

9. Why did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond travel for five months of 1917?

10. What was the project Zitkala-Sa collaborated with William Hanson on in Vernal?

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