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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?
(a) A two-story house.
(b) A church.
(c) A motel.
(d) A school.

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

3. How many sisters does Harjo have?
(a) 3.
(b) 0.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

4. 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) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

5. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 2000s.

6. What is NOT a substance Harjo classifies as a "plant medicine" (66)?
(a) Tobacco.
(b) Tequila.
(c) Peyote.
(d) Whiskey.

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

8. Which of the five senses was the only one Harjo was able to use the night her stepfather poured liquid onto her mother?
(a) Touch.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Sight.
(d) Smell.

9. With what object did Harjo's stepfather hit her little sister on the occasion described by Harjo?
(a) A wooden spoon.
(b) A belt.
(c) An oar.
(d) A hairbrush.

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

11. How many brothers does Harjo have?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

12. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her niece.

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

14. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Alabama.
(d) Florida.

15. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?
(a) Worthy of attention.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Evil.
(d) Selfish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?

2. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?

3. What transgression did Harjo's stepfather accuse her mother of one evening when she returned from a weekly meeting with her girlfriends?

4. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?

5. What kind of church had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?

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