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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the play put on by students at the Indian school Harjo attended?
(a) Equus.
(b) A Taste of Honey.
(c) A Raisin in the Sun.
(d) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

2. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?
(a) The library.
(b) The park.
(c) The bank parking lot.
(d) The town square.

3. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Andy Warhol.
(b) Funk.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Frank Zappa.

4. What object did Harjo's fiance force her to pawn as soon as she reached Tahlequah?
(a) Her turquoise ring.
(b) Her turquoise bracelet.
(c) Her turquoise necklace.
(d) Her turquoise earrings.

5. Which comedian was an avid supporter of Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe?
(a) Jonathan Winters.
(b) Jerry Seinfeld.
(c) Milton Berle.
(d) Louie Anderson.

6. How many friends of Harjo's did she suspect had just had sex with Lupita when they came ambling toward her away from the ditch?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

7. What is the meaning of the Cherokee name Wynema, according to Harjo?
(a) Beautiful woman.
(b) Spring rain.
(c) Swift wind.
(d) Handsome man.

8. How old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

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

10. 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 perform an episiotomy.
(b) To sterlize them.
(c) To perform a Caesarean section.
(d) To give an epidural.

11. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?
(a) Scars.
(b) Diplomas.
(c) Tears.
(d) Children.

12. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?
(a) Lupita.
(b) Clarence.
(c) Mrs. Wilhelm.
(d) Louis Ballard.

13. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) Kansas.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Texas.
(d) Nebraska.

14. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?
(a) She enrolled in nursing school.
(b) She got another job.
(c) She went to Tahlequah anyway.
(d) She went to live with her aunt.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what town during the troupe's tour did the town's citizens throw objects at the troupe's members?

3. The young men who walked away from the ditch and toward Harjo were taking what action as they walked?

4. Harjo states that she was "fully ensconced" (97) in what two types of art classes, rather than being a well-rounded student?

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

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