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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her great-aunt.
(d) Her mother.

2. 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) Fearsome.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Earthy.
(d) Earthly.

3. In what town during the troupe's tour did the town's citizens throw objects at the troupe's members?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Oklahoma City.
(c) La Grande.
(d) Buffalo.

4. 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) Foxes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Salamanders.

5. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?
(a) She was screaming.
(b) She was crying.
(c) She was hitting Louis Ballard.
(d) She was lying down.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harjo when she met the Cherokee young man who would become her first lover?

2. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

3. 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?

4. What transgression did Harjo's stepfather accuse her mother of one evening when she returned from a weekly meeting with her girlfriends?

5. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?

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