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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 at the time she left home four months pregnant bound for Tahlequah on a bus?
(a) 17.
(b) 21.
(c) 19.
(d) 24.

2. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?
(a) Her brother Allen.
(b) Her stepfather.
(c) Her biological father.
(d) Her mother.

3. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?
(a) To sterlize them.
(b) To give an epidural.
(c) To perform a Caesarean section.
(d) To perform an episiotomy.

4. In what town during the troupe's tour did the town's citizens throw objects at the troupe's members?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) La Grande.
(d) Seattle.

5. About how much money did Harjo have with her when she boarded the bus for Tahlequah?
(a) 50 dollars.
(b) 100 dollars.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 10 dollars.

6. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Cabbages.
(c) Tortillas.
(d) Rocks.

7. Harjo discusses the way in which she and her friends had defined themselves as teenagers with what element?
(a) Fashion.
(b) Music.
(c) Sports.
(d) Slang.

8. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

9. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Spring.

10. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?
(a) His brother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His mother.
(d) His grandfather.

11. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her brother.

12. Under what types of trees did the grandmother of Harjo's fiance spend each morning with her friends?
(a) Elm.
(b) Oak.
(c) Maple.
(d) Alder.

13. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?
(a) Washing machines.
(b) Sewing machines.
(c) Stoves.
(d) Sinks.

14. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Stingy.
(c) Mean.
(d) Overprotective.

15. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
(a) She prayed.
(b) She drew.
(c) She held Lupita in her arms.
(d) She studied.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?

2. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) what?

3. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?

4. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?

5. In what season of the year did the Indian school put on a production of a play by Shelagh Delaney?

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