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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 10.

2. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?
(a) His brother.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His grandfather.
(d) His mother.

3. 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.

4. In what season of the year did the Indian school put on a production of a play by Shelagh Delaney?
(a) Fall.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

5. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?
(a) Winter.
(b) Freeze.
(c) Wreck.
(d) Pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harjo and her mother had a lot more experience with what type of natural phenomenon than with hurricanes?

2. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?

3. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?

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

5. Harjo recalls coming home to find her siblings terrified at having just witnessed which person force their mother to play Russian roulette with a loaded gun?

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