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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

2. What action did Harjo begin to take in hopes of keeping her family safe from the wrath of her stepfather?
(a) She began to speak with the police.
(b) She began to collect knives.
(c) She began to have friends over.
(d) She began to stay awake all night.

3. How does Harjo describe her stepfather's identity?
(a) Cherokee.
(b) Indian.
(c) Prussian.
(d) White.

4. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
(a) She went to stay with her sister.
(b) She cleaned.
(c) She slept.
(d) She cooked.

5. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?
(a) Left him.
(b) Called the police.
(c) Cheated on him.
(d) Hit him back.

6. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?
(a) Magicians.
(b) Difficult teachers.
(c) Shamans.
(d) Doctors.

7. What is NOT a substance Harjo classifies as a "plant medicine" (66)?
(a) Tequila.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Peyote.

8. Which of the five senses was the only one Harjo was able to use the night her stepfather poured liquid onto her mother?
(a) Smell.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Sight.
(d) Touch.

9. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?
(a) Worthy of attention.
(b) Evil.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Fiction.

10. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Oklahoma.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Texas.

11. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?
(a) A spinal tap.
(b) A biopsy.
(c) A stress test.
(d) An EKG.

12. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?
(a) Gasoline.
(b) Beer.
(c) Juice.
(d) Water.

13. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her second cousin.

14. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Puebla Nation.
(b) The Lakota Nation.
(c) The Creek Nation.
(d) The Sioux Nation.

15. Desmond Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?
(a) Her great-uncle.
(b) Her maternal grandfather.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her paternal grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?

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

3. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?

4. How old was Harjo when she exhibited symptoms of polio?

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

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