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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through West.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

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

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

4. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) what?
(a) Past.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Ancestors.
(d) Truth.

5. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) Kansas.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Texas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?

2. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?

3. How old was Harjo's sister Margaret when Harjo awoke to find her stepfather holding Margaret up in the air by one leg?

4. 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?

5. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?

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