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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) The stars.
(b) The sky.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

2. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Andy Warhol.
(b) Funk.
(c) Frank Zappa.
(d) Jazz.

3. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?
(a) Overprotective.
(b) Mean.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Stingy.

4. 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) Wreck.
(b) Pain.
(c) Freeze.
(d) Winter.

5. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?
(a) Leave them in the desert.
(b) Bury them in the backyard.
(c) Dump them in the ocean.
(d) Burn them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?

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

3. With what object did Harjo's stepfather hit her little sister on the occasion described by Harjo?

4. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

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