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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. 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)?
(a) 9.
(b) 15.
(c) 13.
(d) 17.

2. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?
(a) Her second cousin.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

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

4. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face?
(a) Her great-grandmother.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her niece.

5. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Fearsome.
(c) Earthly.
(d) Earthy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During what era were the people of Harjo's father removed forcibly from their land in the South?

3. How does Harjo describe her stepfather's identity?

4. 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?

5. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?

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