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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through North: Pages 46-72.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Shamans.
(c) Magicians.
(d) Difficult teachers.

2. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?
(a) A switch.
(b) A wooden spoon.
(c) Her hand.
(d) A belt.

3. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
(a) She cleaned.
(b) She cooked.
(c) She slept.
(d) She went to stay with her sister.

4. How old was Harjo's sister Margaret when Harjo awoke to find her stepfather holding Margaret up in the air by one leg?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

5. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 2000s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1990s.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?

2. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?

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. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?

5. When Harjo's mother's performance was over, with whom did Harjo long to stay?

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