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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?
(a) She was a liar.
(b) She needed to be kept under constant surveillance.
(c) She was promiscuous.
(d) She was a thief.

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

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

4. 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) Rich.
(b) Poor.
(c) Non-profit organizations.
(d) White.

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

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

7. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?
(a) Drums.
(b) Flute.
(c) Saxophone.
(d) Xylophone.

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

9. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?
(a) To give an epidural.
(b) To perform an episiotomy.
(c) To sterlize them.
(d) To perform a Caesarean section.

10. 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) A snake.
(c) An alligator.
(d) A bird.

11. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?
(a) Angry.
(b) Saddened.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Surprised.

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

13. How old was Harjo when she met the Cherokee young man who would become her first lover?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

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

15. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1967.

Short Answer Questions

1. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?

2. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?

3. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?

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

5. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?

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