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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?
(a) Her friend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The knowing.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. Who lent money to Harjo so that she could join her Cherokee boyfriend in Tahlequah?
(a) Allen.
(b) Ray.
(c) Max.
(d) Stan.

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

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

5. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?
(a) Her boss's.
(b) Her aunt's.
(c) Her brother's.
(d) Her stepfather's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the first name of Harjo's family member who drew "two horses running in a storm" (128)?

2. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?

3. Harjo recalls seeing droplets of blood falling on what surface as she fled with her children during one night of the poet's abuse?

4. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

5. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?

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