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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. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?
(a) Scottish and Sioux.
(b) English and Apache.
(c) Irish and Cherokee.
(d) Irish and Modoc.

2. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?
(a) A biopsy.
(b) A spinal tap.
(c) A stress test.
(d) An EKG.

3. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Sioux Nation.
(b) The Puebla Nation.
(c) The Lakota Nation.
(d) The Creek Nation.

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

5. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sky.
(d) The stars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What metaphorical action does Harjo use to describe the way her fear drove her to remain in one place on the time and space continuum?

2. About what type of tree was the song Harjo's mother recorded using a particular music format?

3. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?

4. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?

5. What transgression did Harjo's stepfather accuse her mother of one evening when she returned from a weekly meeting with her girlfriends?

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