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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. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?

2. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?

3. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?

4. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?

5. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?

3. What clues does Harjo provide to the reader regarding the coming ability of her Cherokee boyfriend to provide for his family?

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

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

6. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

7. At what age did Harjo become entwined in a relationship with an older Cherokee man and how did they meet?

8. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?

9. What secret was Harjo keeping by the time she came back from touring the Pacific Northwest with the troupe of dancers and actors?

10. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine how Harjo goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments she puts forth within the pages of Crazy Brave. How does Harjo accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Crazy Brave and analyze Harjo’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

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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