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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's sister Margaret when Harjo awoke to find her stepfather holding Margaret up in the air by one leg?
(a) 12.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 3.

2. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?
(a) Earthy.
(b) Earthly.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Fearsome.

3. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?
(a) Her forties.
(b) Her fifties.
(c) Her twenties.
(d) Her thirties.

4. 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) Heart.
(b) Gut.
(c) Inside.
(d) Hands.

5. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?

2. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?

3. How old was Harjo when she exhibited symptoms of polio?

4. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?

5. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

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