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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Tortillas.
(c) Cabbages.
(d) Rocks.

2. How many friends of Harjo's did she suspect had just had sex with Lupita when they came ambling toward her away from the ditch?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

3. The items along the wall in one of Harjo's classrooms at the art institute were used to train Indian students to work for what kinds of families upon graduation?
(a) White.
(b) Non-profit organizations.
(c) Poor.
(d) Rich.

4. For what reason did the music teacher prohibit Harjo from playing a particular instrument?
(a) Because she had no rhythm.
(b) Because she had already had a turn.
(c) Because she had not asked permission first.
(d) Because she was not old enough.

5. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?
(a) 30.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 24.

6. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?
(a) The Bay Area.
(b) The Pacific Northwest.
(c) New York City.
(d) The Midwest.

7. About how much money did Harjo have with her when she boarded the bus for Tahlequah?
(a) 50 dollars.
(b) 100 dollars.
(c) 50 cents.
(d) 10 dollars.

8. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?
(a) Her brother's.
(b) Her aunt's.
(c) Her boss's.
(d) Her stepfather's.

9. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?
(a) Prayer.
(b) Dance.
(c) Visual art.
(d) Music.

10. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Mexico.

11. What object does Harjo say "symbolizes the important warrior road" (106)?
(a) The umbilical cord.
(b) The vagina.
(c) The abdomen.
(d) The placenta.

12. About how long before Louis Ballard's death did Harjo last visit with him?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 9 months.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 3 months.

13. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her uncle.

14. With which two tribes was Louis Ballard affiliated, according to Harjo?
(a) Choctaw and Creek.
(b) Quapaw and Seneca.
(c) Quapaw and Cherokee.
(d) Sioux and Cherokee.

15. About how many years before the publication of Crazy Brave did Louis Ballard die?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 2.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?

2. How many classes did Harjo take from Louis Ballard during her time at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

3. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) what?

4. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?

5. Harjo states that her mother-in-law used what sort of tactic to try to expel her from the house?

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