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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North: Pages 73-94.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Harjo when she received a ouija board as a present?
(a) 8.
(b) 14.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

2. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1988.

3. By what age had Harjo tired of hearing the Bible misused "to prove the superiority of white people” and “to enforce the domination of women by men” (68)?
(a) 15.
(b) 13.
(c) 17.
(d) 9.

4. When Harjo's stepfather began to come into her room each morning, what action did he always take as she lay in bed?
(a) He combed her hair.
(b) He hit her with a belt.
(c) He touched her breasts.
(d) He rubbed her back.

5. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Balinese.
(c) Bluegrass.
(d) Opera.

Short Answer Questions

1. The items along the wall in one of Harjo's classrooms at the art institute were used to train Indian students to work for what kinds of families upon graduation?

2. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?

3. 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)?

4. How does Harjo describe her stepfather's identity?

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

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