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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 was the title of the play put on by students at the Indian school Harjo attended?

2. How many friends of Harjo's did she suspect had just had sex with Lupita when they came ambling toward her away from the ditch?

3. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?

4. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?

5. Harjo discusses the way in which she and her friends had defined themselves as teenagers with what element?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

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

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

5. In what way did Harjo's mother-in-law's cruelty come back to haunt her?

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

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

8. What clues does Harjo provide to the reader regarding the coming ability of her Cherokee boyfriend to provide for his family?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the topic of shame treated within Crazy Brave and how does its treatment relate to the memoir's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave. What message is Harjo sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

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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