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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

2. What object did Harjo's fiance force her to pawn as soon as she reached Tahlequah?

3. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

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

5. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.

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

4. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

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

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

8. What was the primary emotion Harjo felt upon arriving at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

10. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Harjo's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Crazy Brave.

Essay Topic 2

Write a critical essay about Crazy Brave while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the memoir's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the memoir.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Harjo's choice to use a variety of different storytelling methods over the course of her memoir, including one italicized story within the part of the text entitled North, which Harjo openly classifies as "partially fictionalized" (78).

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