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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) 2.
(d) 3.

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

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

4. Harjo discusses the way in which she and her friends had defined themselves as teenagers with what element?
(a) Sports.
(b) Music.
(c) Slang.
(d) Fashion.

5. What did Harjo do while Lupita cried all night at the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
(a) She studied.
(b) She held Lupita in her arms.
(c) She drew.
(d) She prayed.

6. 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 give an epidural.
(c) To perform an episiotomy.
(d) To sterlize them.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Cocaine.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Methamphetamines.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

3. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

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

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

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