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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?
(a) Satin.
(b) Denim.
(c) Frills.
(d) Perfume.

2. What was the name of the street where Harjo's mother and stepfather moved their combined families after their wedding?
(a) Willow Street.
(b) Blame Street.
(c) Independence Street.
(d) Elm Street.

3. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?
(a) 14.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

4. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?
(a) A stress test.
(b) A spinal tap.
(c) A biopsy.
(d) An EKG.

5. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Texas.

6. What kind of school had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Public.
(c) Indian.
(d) Private.

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

8. 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?
(a) The moon.
(b) The sun.
(c) The stars.
(d) The sky.

9. 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?
(a) Allen.
(b) Harjo's biological father.
(c) Lupita.
(d) Harjo's stepfather.

10. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?
(a) The garage.
(b) The living room.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The den.

11. 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) Spiritual.
(c) Earthly.
(d) Fearsome.

12. On what type of format did Harjo's mother record one of her original songs?
(a) Vinyl.
(b) 8-track.
(c) Cassette.
(d) CD.

13. Harjo states that which person in her family is "one of the oldest living relatives in [her] family line" (13)?
(a) Her maternal grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her father.

14. What metaphorical action does Harjo use to describe the way her fear drove her to remain in one place on the time and space continuum?
(a) Closing the door.
(b) Burrowing into a cave.
(c) Springing a trap.
(d) Killing a beast.

15. 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) Hands.
(c) Heart.
(d) Gut.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?

2. On the title page of the part of the text entitled East, Harjo writes that east is the direction of what?

3. Which of the five senses was the only one Harjo was able to use the night her stepfather poured liquid onto her mother?

4. When Harjo's stepfather began to come into her room each morning, what action did he always take as she lay in bed?

5. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?

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