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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of Harjo's family members is revealed to have the first name Wynema?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her daughter.
(d) Her aunt.

3. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?
(a) Methamphetamines.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Cocaine.

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

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

6. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?
(a) Questions.
(b) Answers.
(c) Funerals.
(d) Endings.

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

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

9. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?
(a) She gave it back to Harjo.
(b) She ripped it up.
(c) She burned it.
(d) She gave it to the police.

10. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?
(a) Lupita.
(b) Louis Ballard.
(c) Clarence.
(d) Mrs. Wilhelm.

11. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) what?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Truth.
(c) Past.
(d) Ancestors.

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

13. 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.

14. Harjo states that her mother-in-law used what sort of tactic to try to expel her from the house?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Witchcraft.
(c) Gaslighting.
(d) Reverse psychology.

15. 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) An alligator.
(b) A snake.
(c) A bird.
(d) A rhinoceros.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lupita was Harjo's friend and also her what?

2. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?

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. Which person threatened Harjo with physical harm if she ever sang inside the house again?

5. About how many years before the publication of Crazy Brave did Louis Ballard die?

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