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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. Zitkala-Sa wanted to leave Washington D. C. and go ____________________.
(a) to the West coast.
(b) to Boston.
(c) to Indiana.
(d) back to the reservation.

2. What was Zitkala-Sa's husband's name?
(a) Steven.
(b) Raymond.
(c) Samuel.
(d) Joseph.

3. Who was the greedy agent at the Indian Bureau with whom Raymond had trouble?
(a) F. Bolton.
(b) F. Bowen.
(c) F. Barker.
(d) F. Baker.

4. What was a major problem with the Indian tribe in #112?
(a) Scurvy.
(b) Malnutrition.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Tuberculosis.

5. How many years have passed since Gertrude was home at the Yankton Reservation?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond move to after their son went away to boarding school?

2. Who was the young man who became engaged to Gertrude when she returned to Pennsylvania in 1897?

3. From which tribe did the young man in #98 come?

4. In what state was the school in #139 located?

5. On whom did the Ute Indians rely for food?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Zitkala-Sa reconnect with Carlos Montezuma in Boston?

2. What was Zitkala-Sa's state of mind at the time of her death in 1938?

3. How did Raymond fight for the Ute Indians?

4. What was Zitkala-Sa's opinion of peyote?

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

6. Who was Carlos Montezuma and why did Zitkala-Sa not marry him?

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

8. Explain how Zitkala-Sa's name meaning Red Bird symbolized both her life and afterlife.

9. 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?

10. Why did Zitkala-Sa separate herself from the Ute Indians?

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