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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. 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?

2. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?

3. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What secret was Harjo keeping by the time she came back from touring the Pacific Northwest with the troupe of dancers and actors?

4. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Could Crazy Brave be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Crazy Brave and analyze Harjo’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

Essay Topic 3

Perform a biographical criticism of Crazy Brave by researching Harjo's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Harjo.

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