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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?
(a) The town square.
(b) The bank parking lot.
(c) The library.
(d) The park.

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

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?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

6. 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 bird.
(c) A snake.
(d) A rhinoceros.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Frank Zappa.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Funk.
(d) Andy Warhol.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many classes did Harjo take from Louis Ballard during her time at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

2. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

3. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?

4. For what reason did the music teacher prohibit Harjo from playing a particular instrument?

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

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