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

2. In what year was "a huge oil gusher" (13) discovered on land partly owned by Henry Marcy Harjo?
(a) 1895.
(b) 1920.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1905.

3. How many children were in Harjo's household just before her mother married Harjo's stepfather?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. How many brothers does Harjo have?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

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

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. By what age had Harjo tired of hearing the Bible misused "to prove the superiority of white people” and “to enforce the domination of women by men” (68)?

3. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?

4. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?

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

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