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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the five senses was the only one Harjo was able to use the night her stepfather poured liquid onto her mother?
(a) Hearing.
(b) Touch.
(c) Smell.
(d) Sight.

2. 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 the uncle of her grandparents.
(b) He is her second cousin, twice removed.
(c) He is her great-great grandfather.
(d) He is her great-uncle.

3. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face?
(a) Her niece.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her mother.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

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

3. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?

4. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?

5. How many sisters does Harjo have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Name and discuss two themes that emerge within the epigraph of the memoir Crazy Brave.

2. Discuss an instance of irony that also acts as an example of foreshadowing within the part of the memoir called North.

3. Discuss a moment in the part of the text entitled East when Harjo provides a feminist perspective.

4. What role did Jazz music play in the development of Harjo's identity?

5. What is the significance of the song entitled "Weeping Willow" (34)?

6. Discuss two instances when the force Harjo calls "the knowing" (71) somehow assisted her.

7. Describe "the small moment" when "the earthy delight of being five years old," for Harjo, "came falling down" (41).

8. What new behavior did Harjo's stepfather begin to exhibit each day after her mother left for work?

9. In what way does Harjo use sensory details to get across a particular message to the reader in the part of the text entitled East?

10. What sort of school was the Institute of American Indian Arts and how did Harjo feel about attending?

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