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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her biological father.
(c) Her brother Allen.
(d) Her stepfather.

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

3. With whom did Harjo's husband have an affair, as described in the part of the text called South?
(a) The librarian.
(b) The babysitter.
(c) The bank teller.
(d) The maid.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?

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?

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

5. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?

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