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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. During what era were the people of Harjo's father removed forcibly from their land in the South?
(a) The early 20th century.
(b) The mid 19th century.
(c) The early 18th century.
(d) The late 19th century.

2. What was the name of the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?
(a) Eufala.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Osceola.
(d) Monahwee.

3. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

4. With what element did Harjo associate beauty when she was a small child?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Danger.
(d) Fate.

5. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?
(a) Tenderloin.
(b) Mission.
(c) Nob Hill.
(d) Haight-Ashbury.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?

2. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?

3. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?

4. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

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

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