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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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 stars.
(b) The sky.
(c) The moon.
(d) The sun.

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

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

6. 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 2000s.
(d) The 1970s.

7. 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) Stealing.
(d) Lying.

8. When Harjo's stepfather began to come into her room each morning, what action did he always take as she lay in bed?
(a) He touched her breasts.
(b) He hit her with a belt.
(c) He rubbed her back.
(d) He combed her hair.

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

10. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Oklahoma.

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

12. In what year was "a huge oil gusher" (13) discovered on land partly owned by Henry Marcy Harjo?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1905.

13. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
(a) She went to stay with her sister.
(b) She cooked.
(c) She slept.
(d) She cleaned.

14. What action did Harjo begin to take in hopes of keeping her family safe from the wrath of her stepfather?
(a) She began to stay awake all night.
(b) She began to speak with the police.
(c) She began to have friends over.
(d) She began to collect knives.

15. 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) Allen.
(b) Harjo's stepfather.
(c) Harjo's biological father.
(d) Lupita.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what type of tree was the song Harjo's mother recorded using a particular music format?

2. During what era were the people of Harjo's father removed forcibly from their land in the South?

3. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

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

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

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