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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond travel around in the chapter entitled, "Despair"?
(a) They were covering the West for a Boston publication.
(b) They documented Indian injustices.
(c) They looked for a good place to start a school.
(d) They looked for some land to purchase.

3. In one example of how the whites swindled the Osage Indians, one woman was entitled to $15,000 a year but her white guardian gave her only __________ a week.
(a) $5.
(b) $1.
(c) $15.
(d) $50.

4. What problem did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond have with Ohiya's children when they took them in?
(a) They had no formal schooling.
(b) They were malnourished.
(c) They had no table manners.
(d) They were too out of control.

5. Why did the character in #132 have to dance a sun dance in the opera?
(a) To bring an end to the rains.
(b) To bring an abundant harvest.
(c) To insure luck on the buffalo hunt.
(d) To prove his worthiness to his beloved.

6. What lie did the Indian Bureau agent tell about Raymond?
(a) That he gambled his money away.
(b) That he stole food from the bureau.
(c) That he beat Zitkala-Sa.
(d) That he was a drunk.

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

8. Zitkala-Sa told the government that Sitting Bull was her ___________________.
(a) uncle.
(b) grandfather.
(c) godfather.
(d) brother.

9. For how long did Zitkala-Sa and Raymond travel around in the chapter entitled, "Despair"?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 18 months.

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

11. Gertrude wrote an article which appeared in which publication?
(a) Atlantic Monthly.
(b) The Boston Globe.
(c) New York Post.
(d) The New Yorker.

12. Which of the following is NOT something which Gertrude needed?
(a) City Life.
(b) Religion.
(c) Books.
(d) Music.

13. How much land had the U.S. government taken from the Ute Indians?
(a) 2 million acres.
(b) 500,000 acres.
(c) 50 million acres.
(d) 10 million acres.

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

15. What part of Zitkala-Sa emerged when on the Ute reservation?
(a) Her Sioux identity.
(b) Her white identity.
(c) Her female identity.
(d) Her maternal identity.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what state did Zitkala-Sa and her husband move after their marriage?

2. What did Zitkala-Sa hate about her life in Utah?

3. Gertrude and her husband headed to a reservation located in which state?

4. How old was Zitkala-Sa's son in the chapter, "Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Bonnin"?

5. What role did Zitkala-Sa take on in the Society of American Indians?

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