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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT one of the elements Harjo vows to feed her son so that he will flourish?
(a) Dreams and stories.
(b) Beans.
(c) Corn.
(d) Cornbread.

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

3. 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.

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) Non-profit organizations.
(c) Poor.
(d) White.

5. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 2.

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

7. 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 sterlize them.
(b) To perform an episiotomy.
(c) To perform a Caesarean section.
(d) To give an epidural.

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

9. 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) Surprised.
(b) Apathetic.
(c) Angry.
(d) Saddened.

10. What was the title of the play put on by students at the Indian school Harjo attended?
(a) Equus.
(b) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
(c) A Raisin in the Sun.
(d) A Taste of Honey.

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

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?

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

3. How old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?

4. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?

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

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