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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Harjo recalls coming home to find her siblings terrified at having just witnessed which person force their mother to play Russian roulette with a loaded gun?
(a) Harjo's stepfather.
(b) Lupita.
(c) Allen.
(d) Harjo's biological father.

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

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) Shamans.
(b) Difficult teachers.
(c) Magicians.
(d) Doctors.

6. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?
(a) Scottish and Sioux.
(b) English and Apache.
(c) Irish and Modoc.
(d) Irish and Cherokee.

7. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?
(a) Her second cousin.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

8. What metaphorical action does Harjo use to describe the way her fear drove her to remain in one place on the time and space continuum?
(a) Killing a beast.
(b) Springing a trap.
(c) Closing the door.
(d) Burrowing into a cave.

9. 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 motel.
(c) A school.
(d) A church.

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

11. With what element did Harjo associate beauty when she was a small child?
(a) Elegance.
(b) Fate.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Danger.

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

13. A poem included at the start of the part entitled North states that "the door to the mind should open only from the" (46) what?
(a) Hands.
(b) Heart.
(c) Gut.
(d) Inside.

14. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?
(a) Golf.
(b) Knitting circle.
(c) Shuffleboard.
(d) Book club.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?

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

3. What type of creatures did Harjo find in the grass on the evening her mother told her to get inside and put a shirt on?

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

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

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