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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what town during the troupe's tour did the town's citizens throw objects at the troupe's members?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Seattle.
(d) La Grande.

2. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?
(a) His mother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His brother.
(d) His uncle.

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

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

5. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

7. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her biological father.
(c) Her brother Allen.
(d) Her stepfather.

8. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?
(a) Overprotective.
(b) Mean.
(c) Stingy.
(d) Jealous.

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

10. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?
(a) Her forties.
(b) Her thirties.
(c) Her fifties.
(d) Her twenties.

11. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

12. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?
(a) Diocesan.
(b) Franciscan.
(c) Monastic.
(d) Jesuit.

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

14. When Harjo located Lupita at the party, Lupita joked that she had been on what planet?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Venus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?

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

3. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

4. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?

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

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