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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her niece.
(d) Her mother.

3. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her great-aunt.

4. What type of creatures did Harjo find in the grass on the evening her mother told her to get inside and put a shirt on?
(a) Salamanders.
(b) Mice.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Foxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Desmond Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?

3. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

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

5. In what year was "a huge oil gusher" (13) discovered on land partly owned by Henry Marcy Harjo?

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