1. About what type of tree was the song Harjo's mother recorded using a particular music format?
(a) A willow tree.
(b) An oak tree.
(c) A palm tree.
(d) A eucalyptus tree.

2. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?
(a) Dance.
(b) Music.
(c) Hardship.
(d) Literature.

3. A poem included at the start of the part entitled North states that "the door to the mind should open only from the" (46) what?
(a) Inside.
(b) Gut.
(c) Heart.
(d) Hands.

4. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?
(a) Water.
(b) Gasoline.
(c) Juice.
(d) Beer.

5. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Creek Nation.
(b) The Puebla Nation.
(c) The Lakota Nation.
(d) The Sioux Nation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harjo recalls coming home to find her siblings terrified at having just witnessed which person force their mother to play Russian roulette with a loaded gun?

2. What type of creatures did Harjo find in the grass on the evening her mother told her to get inside and put a shirt on?

3. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?

4. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?

5. When Harjo's mother's performance was over, with whom did Harjo long to stay?

(see the answer key)

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