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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?
(a) Dance.
(b) Music.
(c) Hardship.
(d) Literature.

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

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

4. 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.

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

6. Leona May Baker was the name of which one of Harjo's relatives?
(a) Her paternal grandmother.
(b) Her great-aunt.
(c) Her maternal grandmother.
(d) Her aunt.

7. What kind of church had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?
(a) Evangelical.
(b) Greek Orthodox.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Presbyterian.

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

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

10. In what way is Harjo related to the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?
(a) He is her second cousin, twice removed.
(b) He is her great-great grandfather.
(c) He is the uncle of her grandparents.
(d) He is her great-uncle.

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

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

13. How old was Harjo when she received a ouija board as a present?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

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

15. 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?
(a) Foxes.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Salamanders.
(d) Mice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?

2. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?

3. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?

4. What is NOT a substance Harjo classifies as a "plant medicine" (66)?

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

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