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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Harjo when she exhibited symptoms of polio?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 6.
(d) 16.

2. 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) Burrowing into a cave.
(b) Killing a beast.
(c) Closing the door.
(d) Springing a trap.

3. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?
(a) Tenderloin.
(b) Nob Hill.
(c) Mission.
(d) Haight-Ashbury.

4. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her great-aunt.
(d) Her father.

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

6. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?
(a) Novels.
(b) Songs.
(c) Poems.
(d) Plays.

7. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 0.
(d) 1.

8. 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) Inside.
(c) Gut.
(d) Hands.

9. 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) 17.
(c) 9.
(d) 13.

10. In what way is Harjo related to the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?
(a) He is her great-uncle.
(b) He is the uncle of her grandparents.
(c) He is her second cousin, twice removed.
(d) He is her great-great grandfather.

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

12. 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 rubbed her back.
(b) He touched her breasts.
(c) He hit her with a belt.
(d) He combed her hair.

13. Harjo and her mother had a lot more experience with what type of natural phenomenon than with hurricanes?
(a) Monsoons.
(b) Earthquakes.
(c) Tornadoes.
(d) Floods.

14. In what state was Harjo born?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Washington.

15. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is NOT a substance Harjo classifies as a "plant medicine" (66)?

3. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?

4. What sport did Harjo's stepfather enjoy watching on television when he was not beating or berating his family?

5. Desmond Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?

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