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

2. What type of creatures did Harjo find in the grass on the evening her mother told her to get inside and put a shirt on?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Salamanders.
(c) Mice.
(d) Foxes.

3. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
(a) She went to stay with her sister.
(b) She slept.
(c) She cooked.
(d) She cleaned.

4. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?
(a) Texas.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Oklahoma.
(d) New Mexico.

5. What action did Harjo begin to take in hopes of keeping her family safe from the wrath of her stepfather?
(a) She began to speak with the police.
(b) She began to collect knives.
(c) She began to have friends over.
(d) She began to stay awake all night.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?

2. On what type of format did Harjo's mother record one of her original songs?

3. 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?

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. On the title page of the part of the text entitled East, Harjo writes that east is the direction of what?

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