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. About how large is Leech Lake Reservation?
(a) 60 by 60 miles.
(b) 50 by 50 miles.
(c) 40 by 40 miles.
(d) 30 by 30 miles.

2. How many square miles do the Great Plains cover?
(a) 1.3 milliion.
(b) 750,000.
(c) 500,000.
(d) 2 million.

3. When were the Nez Perce forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in Oregon to Idaho?
(a) 1879.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1873.
(d) 1871.

4. Where were at least 150 Lakota Sioux killed in South Dakota?
(a) Split Rock Creek.
(b) James Creek.
(c) Wounded Knee Creek.
(d) Skunk Creek.

5. When did Indian tribes begin to organize themselves formally in spite of the Office of Indian Affairs and the federal government?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1921.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were peaceful Blackfeet massacred on the Marais River?

2. How many days did it take to find Zintkala Nuni or Lost Bird after her mother was gunned down at Wounded Knee Creek?

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

4. When was an order for Sitting Bull's arrest issued?

5. When would Treuer's father drive Indian kids to Bemidji and then bring them home again?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. By the beginning of the seventeenth century, how was the North American continent divided?

3. What is the earliest verified record of settlement in North America?

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

5. Who was Sam Cleveland, and how did Treuer describe him?

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

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

8. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?

9. What was allotment?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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