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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. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?
(a) Cheated on him.
(b) Left him.
(c) Called the police.
(d) Hit him back.

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

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

4. On the title page of the part of the text entitled East, Harjo writes that east is the direction of what?
(a) Mornings.
(b) Reckoning.
(c) Routines.
(d) Beginnings.

5. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?
(a) Frills.
(b) Denim.
(c) Satin.
(d) Perfume.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children were in Harjo's household just before her mother married Harjo's stepfather?

2. Harjo recalls coming home to find her siblings terrified at having just witnessed which person force their mother to play Russian roulette with a loaded gun?

3. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?

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

5. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?

(see the answer key)

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