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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. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?
(a) Worthy of attention.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Evil.

2. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1990s.
(d) The 2000s.

3. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?
(a) Book club.
(b) Knitting circle.
(c) Golf.
(d) Shuffleboard.

4. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Sioux Nation.
(b) The Creek Nation.
(c) The Lakota Nation.
(d) The Puebla Nation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?

2. What was the name of the street where Harjo's mother and stepfather moved their combined families after their wedding?

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

4. Leona May Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?

5. How many brothers does Harjo have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. Who was Osceola and what is the significance of Harjo's connection to him?

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

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

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

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

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