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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What substance did Harjo's mother-in-law use to put a curse on Harjo, according to her husband?
(a) Maize.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Steam.
(d) Oil.

2. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Her brother.

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

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

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

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

7. Which comedian was an avid supporter of Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe?
(a) Jerry Seinfeld.
(b) Louie Anderson.
(c) Milton Berle.
(d) Jonathan Winters.

8. 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)?
(a) Freeze.
(b) Winter.
(c) Wreck.
(d) Pain.

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

10. What object does Harjo say "symbolizes the important warrior road" (106)?
(a) The vagina.
(b) The placenta.
(c) The abdomen.
(d) The umbilical cord.

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

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

13. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?
(a) She was lying down.
(b) She was screaming.
(c) She was crying.
(d) She was hitting Louis Ballard.

14. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?
(a) Sewing machines.
(b) Stoves.
(c) Sinks.
(d) Washing machines.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How old was Harjo when she met the Cherokee young man who would become her first lover?

4. Harjo states that her mother-in-law used what sort of tactic to try to expel her from the house?

5. How many friends of Harjo's did she suspect had just had sex with Lupita when they came ambling toward her away from the ditch?

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