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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?
(a) Monahwee.
(b) Samuel.
(c) Eufala.
(d) Osceola.

2. What was the name of the street where Harjo's mother and stepfather moved their combined families after their wedding?
(a) Blame Street.
(b) Elm Street.
(c) Independence Street.
(d) Willow Street.

3. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?
(a) The sky.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The stars.

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

5. What sport did Harjo's stepfather enjoy watching on television when he was not beating or berating his family?
(a) Football.
(b) Tennis.
(c) Basketball.
(d) Golf.

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

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

8. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Creek Nation.
(b) The Sioux Nation.
(c) The Lakota Nation.
(d) The Puebla Nation.

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

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

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

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

13. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?
(a) 0.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

14. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?
(a) Spiritual.
(b) Earthy.
(c) Fearsome.
(d) Earthly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what country did the three young girls called out by the preacher at church originally hail?

2. How many brothers does Harjo have?

3. In what state was Harjo born?

4. On what type of format did Harjo's mother record one of her original songs?

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

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