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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?
(a) Parentheses.
(b) Italics.
(c) Bold type.
(d) All capital letters.

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

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

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

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

7. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1988.

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

9. How old was Harjo when she met the Cherokee young man who would become her first lover?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

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

11. For what reason did the music teacher prohibit Harjo from playing a particular instrument?
(a) Because she had no rhythm.
(b) Because she had already had a turn.
(c) Because she had not asked permission first.
(d) Because she was not old enough.

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

13. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?
(a) The knowing.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) Her friend.
(d) Her mother.

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

15. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?
(a) Children.
(b) Diplomas.
(c) Tears.
(d) Scars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what city did did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?

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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