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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North: Pages 73-94.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?
(a) Dump them in the ocean.
(b) Bury them in the backyard.
(c) Leave them in the desert.
(d) Burn them.

2. What sport did Harjo's stepfather enjoy watching on television when he was not beating or berating his family?
(a) Tennis.
(b) Basketball.
(c) Football.
(d) Golf.

3. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?
(a) Shuffleboard.
(b) Book club.
(c) Golf.
(d) Knitting circle.

4. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?
(a) She was hitting Louis Ballard.
(b) She was screaming.
(c) She was crying.
(d) She was lying down.

5. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
(a) She held Lupita in her arms.
(b) She prayed.
(c) She drew.
(d) She studied.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From what country did the three young girls called out by the preacher at church originally hail?

3. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?

4. What type of creatures did Harjo find in the grass on the evening her mother told her to get inside and put a shirt on?

5. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?

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