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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through West.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?
(a) She gave it back to Harjo.
(b) She ripped it up.
(c) She gave it to the police.
(d) She burned it.

2. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1972.

3. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?
(a) Monastic.
(b) Franciscan.
(c) Diocesan.
(d) Jesuit.

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

5. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?
(a) New York City.
(b) The Midwest.
(c) The Pacific Northwest.
(d) The Bay Area.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?

2. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?

3. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

4. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

5. 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?

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