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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. 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) White.
(b) Rich.
(c) Poor.
(d) Non-profit organizations.

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

3. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?
(a) Endings.
(b) Answers.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Questions.

4. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Music.
(c) Dance.
(d) Visual art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

2. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?

3. The morning after the party, Harjo was asked to report to the office of which person?

4. 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?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Harjo associate the Institute of American Indian Arts with the motif of paths and journeys?

2. In what way was Harjo an outlier within the troupe of actors and dancers to which she belonged?

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

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

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

6. At what age did Harjo become entwined in a relationship with an older Cherokee man and how did they meet?

7. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?

8. What rumors did Harjo hear about her future mother-in-law and how did they compare with reality?

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

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

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