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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many brothers does Harjo have?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

2. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
(a) She prayed.
(b) She held Lupita in her arms.
(c) She drew.
(d) She studied.

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

4. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?
(a) Irish and Cherokee.
(b) Scottish and Sioux.
(c) English and Apache.
(d) Irish and Modoc.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. 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)?

3. With whom did Harjo's husband have an affair, as described in the part of the text called South?

4. When Harjo stopped pursuing a pre-med major, she declared which other major instead?

5. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?

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