The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

David Treuer
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 157 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

David Treuer
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 157 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. When was the battle of the Little Bighorn?
(a) 1874.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1871.

2. How old was Treuer's grandmother when she was sent to Tomah Indian Industrial School in Tomah, Wisconsin?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 5.

3. How many more times likely were Native students to drop out of house school than whites?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

4. When did Richard Henry Pratt open the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania?
(a) 1884.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1880.
(d) 1879.

5. When did the Spanish attempt to settle in what is present-day South Carolina?
(a) 1511 and 1521.
(b) 1530 and 1570.
(c) 1498 and 1502.
(d) 1526 and 1566.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Lakota survived Wounded Knee?

2. When did Arizona and New Mexico allow Indians to vote?

3. How many years of Indian history does Treuer tell in the book?

4. In 2002 when Indians in Minnesota made up one percent of the state population, what percent made up the prison population?

5. When Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida in 1513, how long had Indians been living there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was allotment?

2. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

3. What happened when Chief Standing Bear and his followers took the chief's eldest son's body to be buried in Nebraska on their ancestral homelands?

4. How did Treuer describe the Ojibwe and their beginnings?

5. What was the Meriam Report, and what were its findings?

6. What did Indian Rights groups in the 1880s say about the reservation system?

7. Who survived the massacre at Wounded Knee, and what did they go on to do?

8. What were the Hopewell cutlures and how did they bury their dead?

9. Why was Kevin Washburn a believer in tribal self-determination and self-governance from early in his life?

10. By the end of 1890, how did everything seem to be over for Indians?

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