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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

2. 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.

3. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?
(a) Clarence.
(b) Louis Ballard.
(c) Lupita.
(d) Mrs. Wilhelm.

4. What is the meaning of the Cherokee name Wynema, according to Harjo?
(a) Handsome man.
(b) Beautiful woman.
(c) Swift wind.
(d) Spring rain.

5. 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) Pain.
(b) Winter.
(c) Freeze.
(d) Wreck.

6. 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 park.
(b) The bank parking lot.
(c) The town square.
(d) The library.

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

8. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her advisor.
(d) Her Cherokee boyfriend.

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

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

11. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?
(a) She was a thief.
(b) She was a liar.
(c) She was promiscuous.
(d) She needed to be kept under constant surveillance.

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

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

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

15. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?
(a) She gave it back to Harjo.
(b) She burned it.
(c) She ripped it up.
(d) She gave it to the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?

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

3. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

4. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

5. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?

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