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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what element did Harjo associate beauty when she was a small child?
(a) Danger.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Elegance.
(d) Fate.

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

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

4. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Andy Warhol.
(b) Frank Zappa.
(c) Funk.
(d) Jazz.

5. When Harjo's mother's performance was over, with whom did Harjo long to stay?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Harjo on the occasion when she and her mother stayed up late to monitor a hurricane in the area?

3. How many hours did it take Harjo's family to drive to the location of her mother's final public singing performance?

4. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?

5. Harjo states that which person in her family is "one of the oldest living relatives in [her] family line" (13)?

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