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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the title of the play put on by students at the Indian school Harjo attended?
(a) A Taste of Honey.
(b) Equus.
(c) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
(d) A Raisin in the Sun.

2. Harjo states that her mother-in-law used what sort of tactic to try to expel her from the house?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Reverse psychology.
(c) Gaslighting.
(d) Witchcraft.

3. How old was Harjo when she met the Cherokee young man who would become her first lover?
(a) 18.
(b) 15.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

4. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?
(a) Sinks.
(b) Washing machines.
(c) Stoves.
(d) Sewing machines.

5. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1979.

6. The young men who walked away from the ditch and toward Harjo were taking what action as they walked?
(a) They were eating.
(b) They were punching one another.
(c) They were taking shots.
(d) They were snickering.

7. 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?
(a) White.
(b) Rich.
(c) Poor.
(d) Non-profit organizations.

8. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Answers.
(c) Endings.
(d) Questions.

9. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?
(a) Surprised.
(b) Angry.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Saddened.

10. For what reason did the music teacher prohibit Harjo from playing a particular instrument?
(a) Because she had already had a turn.
(b) Because she had not asked permission first.
(c) Because she was not old enough.
(d) Because she had no rhythm.

11. What is NOT one of the elements Harjo vows to feed her son so that he will flourish?
(a) Beans.
(b) Cornbread.
(c) Corn.
(d) Dreams and stories.

12. With whom did Harjo stay for the first week after she arrived in Tahlequah?
(a) Other homeless teens.
(b) Friends of her fiance's.
(c) Her fiance.
(d) A local farmer.

13. How old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?
(a) 16.
(b) 10.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

14. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her uncle.

15. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?
(a) The park.
(b) The library.
(c) The town square.
(d) The bank parking lot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harjo at the time she left home four months pregnant bound for Tahlequah on a bus?

2. In what season of the year did the Indian school put on a production of a play by Shelagh Delaney?

3. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

5. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

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