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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?
(a) Living.
(b) Nature.
(c) Everyday language.
(d) The wind.

2. Louis Ballard acted in what official capacity during Harjo's journey through school?
(a) Housefather.
(b) Dean.
(c) President.
(d) Advisor.

3. How old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?
(a) 14.
(b) 10.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

4. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Fall.

5. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?
(a) She enrolled in nursing school.
(b) She got another job.
(c) She went to live with her aunt.
(d) She went to Tahlequah anyway.

6. In what season of the year did the Indian school put on a production of a play by Shelagh Delaney?
(a) Summer.
(b) Spring.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

7. How old was Harjo at the time she left home four months pregnant bound for Tahlequah on a bus?
(a) 21.
(b) 24.
(c) 19.
(d) 17.

8. 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?
(a) The bank parking lot.
(b) The park.
(c) The library.
(d) The town square.

9. With whom did Harjo stay for the first week after she arrived in Tahlequah?
(a) Her fiance.
(b) Other homeless teens.
(c) A local farmer.
(d) Friends of her fiance's.

10. Under what types of trees did the grandmother of Harjo's fiance spend each morning with her friends?
(a) Oak.
(b) Elm.
(c) Maple.
(d) Alder.

11. Lupita was Harjo's friend and also her what?
(a) Running partner.
(b) Tutor.
(c) Roommate.
(d) Lab partner.

12. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
(a) She held Lupita in her arms.
(b) She drew.
(c) She prayed.
(d) She studied.

13. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Andy Warhol.
(c) Frank Zappa.
(d) Funk.

14. Before Harjo, her husband, and her children moved to Tulsa, one of her "mother-in-law's enemies came to her as a" (109) what?
(a) A rhinoceros.
(b) An alligator.
(c) A bird.
(d) A snake.

15. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?
(a) Italics.
(b) Bold type.
(c) All capital letters.
(d) Parentheses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?

2. 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?

3. About how long before Louis Ballard's death did Harjo last visit with him?

4. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?

5. Which of Harjo's family members is revealed to have the first name Wynema?

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