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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her uncle.

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)?
(a) Pain.
(b) Wreck.
(c) Winter.
(d) Freeze.

3. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?
(a) Lupita.
(b) Mrs. Wilhelm.
(c) Louis Ballard.
(d) Clarence.

4. What object did the poet throw at the bartender before he was kicked out of Okie Joe's?
(a) A glass.
(b) A radio.
(c) A shoe.
(d) A pitcher.

5. About how long before Louis Ballard's death did Harjo last visit with him?
(a) 3 months.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 1 month.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?

2. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?

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

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

5. Before Harjo, her husband, and her children moved to Tulsa, one of her "mother-in-law's enemies came to her as a" (109) what?

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