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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through West.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?
(a) Jesuit.
(b) Franciscan.
(c) Diocesan.
(d) Monastic.

2. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?
(a) Answers.
(b) Questions.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Endings.

3. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?
(a) She enrolled in nursing school.
(b) She went to live with her aunt.
(c) She got another job.
(d) She went to Tahlequah anyway.

4. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?
(a) Living.
(b) Nature.
(c) Everyday language.
(d) The wind.

5. How old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?

2. Before Harjo, her husband, and her children moved to Tulsa, one of her "mother-in-law's enemies came to her as a" (109) what?

3. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?

4. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?

5. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?

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