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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the elements Harjo vows to feed her son so that he will flourish?
(a) Beans.
(b) Dreams and stories.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cornbread.

2. In the epigraph of the memoir, Harjo states that she "traveled far above the earth" (8) how many times?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 1.

3. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?
(a) To give an epidural.
(b) To perform a Caesarean section.
(c) To perform an episiotomy.
(d) To sterlize them.

4. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?
(a) Difficult teachers.
(b) Shamans.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Magicians.

5. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which comedian was an avid supporter of Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe?

2. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?

3. What metaphorical action does Harjo use to describe the way her fear drove her to remain in one place on the time and space continuum?

4. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

5. Desmond Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?

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