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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Harjo's sister Margaret when Harjo awoke to find her stepfather holding Margaret up in the air by one leg?
(a) 3.
(b) 8.
(c) 12.
(d) 5.

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

3. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?
(a) She went to live with her aunt.
(b) She got another job.
(c) She enrolled in nursing school.
(d) She went to Tahlequah anyway.

4. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?
(a) Drums.
(b) Xylophone.
(c) Flute.
(d) Saxophone.

5. What object does Harjo say "symbolizes the important warrior road" (106)?
(a) The abdomen.
(b) The placenta.
(c) The vagina.
(d) The umbilical cord.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?

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. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?

4. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

5. How many children were in Harjo's household just before her mother married Harjo's stepfather?

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