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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. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her second cousin.

2. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?
(a) A headache.
(b) Congestion.
(c) Stiff muscles.
(d) Nausea.

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

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

5. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
(a) She went to stay with her sister.
(b) She cooked.
(c) She cleaned.
(d) She slept.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

3. In what way is Harjo related to the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?

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

5. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How and why did Harjo's career plans change during her first year at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

3. For what reason did Harjo associate beauty with danger in her early childhood?

4. What is Harjo's message regarding the way in which everyone must deal with their "gulfs of sadness" (15)?

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

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

7. For what reason did Harjo feel drawn toward the Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s?

8. How does Harjo interpret the preacher's behavior on the day the three Mexican-American sisters come to church?

9. What sort of coping mechanisms does Harjo portray as detrimental, rather than helpful?

10. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face and what is the significance of this fact?

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