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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North: Pages 73-94.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 2.

2. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?
(a) Italics.
(b) All capital letters.
(c) Parentheses.
(d) Bold type.

3. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1972.

4. Harjo and her mother had a lot more experience with what type of natural phenomenon than with hurricanes?
(a) Floods.
(b) Monsoons.
(c) Tornadoes.
(d) Earthquakes.

5. Harjo states that which person in her family is "one of the oldest living relatives in [her] family line" (13)?
(a) Herself.
(b) Her maternal grandmother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

2. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?

3. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?

4. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?

5. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?

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