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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) White.
(d) Red.

2. What is NOT an item Harjo mentions when she describes how her mother "dressed for her musical coming-out party" (50)?
(a) Frills.
(b) Denim.
(c) Perfume.
(d) Satin.

3. On the title page of the part of the text entitled East, Harjo writes that east is the direction of what?
(a) Reckoning.
(b) Beginnings.
(c) Mornings.
(d) Routines.

4. Desmond Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?
(a) Her paternal grandfather.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her great-uncle.
(d) Her maternal grandfather.

5. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The living room.
(c) The den.
(d) The garage.

6. What transgression did Harjo's stepfather accuse her mother of one evening when she returned from a weekly meeting with her girlfriends?
(a) Cheating.
(b) Singing.
(c) Lying.
(d) Stealing.

7. Harjo and her mother had a lot more experience with what type of natural phenomenon than with hurricanes?
(a) Monsoons.
(b) Tornadoes.
(c) Floods.
(d) Earthquakes.

8. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 17 years.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 11 years.

9. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?
(a) Leave them in the desert.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Bury them in the backyard.
(d) Dump them in the ocean.

10. How does Harjo describe her stepfather's identity?
(a) Indian.
(b) Prussian.
(c) Cherokee.
(d) White.

11. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?
(a) Haight-Ashbury.
(b) Nob Hill.
(c) Tenderloin.
(d) Mission.

12. In what state was Harjo born?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Washington.
(d) Oregon.

13. How old was Harjo when she exhibited symptoms of polio?
(a) 16.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

14. How many hours did it take Harjo's family to drive to the location of her mother's final public singing performance?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

15. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?
(a) Left him.
(b) Called the police.
(c) Hit him back.
(d) Cheated on him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Leona May Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?

2. In the epigraph of the memoir, Harjo states that she "traveled far above the earth" (8) how many times?

3. What was the name of the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?

4. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?

5. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?

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