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

2. What is NOT one of the elements Harjo vows to feed her son so that he will flourish?
(a) Dreams and stories.
(b) Beans.
(c) Cornbread.
(d) Corn.

3. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?
(a) She was crying.
(b) She was lying down.
(c) She was hitting Louis Ballard.
(d) She was screaming.

4. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?
(a) She was promiscuous.
(b) She was a thief.
(c) She needed to be kept under constant surveillance.
(d) She was a liar.

5. The items along the wall in one of Harjo's classrooms at the art institute were used to train Indian students to work for what kinds of families upon graduation?
(a) Rich.
(b) Non-profit organizations.
(c) Poor.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?

2. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?

3. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?

4. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

5. About how many years before the publication of Crazy Brave did Louis Ballard die?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Louis Ballard about five years before the publication of Crazy Brave?

2. What is the significance of the release form Harjo signed at the Indian hospital when she had her first child?

3. Who was Mrs. Wilhelm and what did she do to surprise Harjo soon after Harjo's arrival at the art institute?

4. What statement does Harjo make about the veracity of the italicized portion of the part entitled North?

5. What does the line of stoves within the memoir symbolize?

6. With what types of traumas were many of Harjo's classmates dealing as they attended the Institute of American Indian Arts?

7. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?

8. What link does Harjo suggest exists between creativity and healing?

9. How did Harjo reach Tahlequah when she failed to receive the promised bus ticket in the mail?

10. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

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