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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ordered that Harjo's name never be spoken again within her childhood home?
(a) Her sister Margaret.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother Boyd.
(d) Her stepfather.

2. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?
(a) Worthy of attention.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Evil.

3. In the epigraph of the memoir, Harjo states that she "traveled far above the earth" (8) how many times?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 9.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what type of format did Harjo's mother record one of her original songs?

2. What was the first name of Harjo's family member who drew "two horses running in a storm" (128)?

3. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

4. In what way is Harjo related to the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?

5. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?

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