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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 substance did Harjo's mother-in-law use to put a curse on Harjo, according to her husband?

2. Which of Harjo's family members is revealed to have the first name Wynema?

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

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

5. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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

Read a lengthy interview with Harjo. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Harjo’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Crazy Brave.

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