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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?
(a) Freeze.
(b) Pain.
(c) Winter.
(d) Wreck.

2. What object did the poet break when he threw a different object at the bartender's head at Okie Joe's?
(a) A mirror.
(b) A pitcher.
(c) A bottle of liquor.
(d) A framed picture.

3. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?
(a) A two-story house.
(b) A church.
(c) A motel.
(d) A school.

4. What is the meaning of the Cherokee name Wynema, according to Harjo?
(a) Swift wind.
(b) Beautiful woman.
(c) Spring rain.
(d) Handsome man.

5. What action did Harjo begin to take in hopes of keeping her family safe from the wrath of her stepfather?
(a) She began to collect knives.
(b) She began to have friends over.
(c) She began to stay awake all night.
(d) She began to speak with the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?

2. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?

3. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?

4. 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?

5. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?

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