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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?
(a) The living room.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The den.
(d) The garage.

3. A poem included at the start of the part entitled North states that "the door to the mind should open only from the" (46) what?
(a) Heart.
(b) Gut.
(c) Hands.
(d) Inside.

4. What was the name of the street where Harjo's mother and stepfather moved their combined families after their wedding?
(a) Independence Street.
(b) Blame Street.
(c) Elm Street.
(d) Willow Street.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of school had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?

2. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?

3. How old was Harjo when she received a ouija board as a present?

4. What sport did Harjo's stepfather enjoy watching on television when he was not beating or berating his family?

5. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a moment in the part of the text entitled East when Harjo provides a feminist perspective.

2. Soon after Harjo's family moved to the house on Independence Street, Harjo awoke to the sound of her sister crying. What was going on?

3. Who was Osceola and what is the significance of Harjo's connection to him?

4. Describe "the small moment" when "the earthy delight of being five years old," for Harjo, "came falling down" (41).

5. Name and discuss two themes that emerge within the epigraph of the memoir Crazy Brave.

6. For what reason did Harjo associate beauty with danger in her early childhood?

7. What is the significance of the song entitled "Weeping Willow" (34)?

8. For what reason did Harjo feel drawn toward the Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s?

9. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face and what is the significance of this fact?

10. In what way does Harjo use sensory details to get across a particular message to the reader in the part of the text entitled East?

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