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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How many hours did it take Harjo's family to drive to the location of her mother's final public singing performance?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. What kind of school had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?
(a) Private.
(b) Indian.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Public.

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

6. The last singing performance Harjo ever saw her mother give took place at what type of event?
(a) A rodeo.
(b) A banquet.
(c) A picnic.
(d) A dance.

7. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?
(a) Bluegrass.
(b) Opera.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Balinese.

8. 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.

9. In the epigraph of the memoir, Harjo states that she "traveled far above the earth" (8) how many times?
(a) 9.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

10. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?
(a) Congestion.
(b) A headache.
(c) Stiff muscles.
(d) Nausea.

11. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?
(a) Leave them in the desert.
(b) Bury them in the backyard.
(c) Dump them in the ocean.
(d) Burn them.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what element did Harjo associate beauty when she was a small child?

2. Harjo states that which person in her family is "one of the oldest living relatives in [her] family line" (13)?

3. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?

4. 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?

5. How old was Harjo when she received a ouija board as a present?

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