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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. In what city did did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) Topeka.
(b) Omaha.
(c) Santa Fe.
(d) Tyler.

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

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

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?
(a) Visual art.
(b) Music.
(c) Dance.
(d) Prayer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of the Cherokee name Wynema, according to Harjo?

2. Which of Harjo's family members is revealed to have the first name Wynema?

3. What object did Harjo's fiance force her to pawn as soon as she reached Tahlequah?

4. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

5. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?

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