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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?
(a) Tenderloin.
(b) Nob Hill.
(c) Haight-Ashbury.
(d) Mission.

2. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?
(a) Dump them in the ocean.
(b) Burn them.
(c) Bury them in the backyard.
(d) Leave them in the desert.

3. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?
(a) Scottish and Sioux.
(b) Irish and Modoc.
(c) English and Apache.
(d) Irish and Cherokee.

4. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

5. In what way is Harjo related to the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?
(a) He is her great-uncle.
(b) He is her second cousin, twice removed.
(c) He is the uncle of her grandparents.
(d) He is her great-great grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of church had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?

2. How many sisters does Harjo have?

3. The last singing performance Harjo ever saw her mother give took place at what type of event?

4. In what year was "a huge oil gusher" (13) discovered on land partly owned by Henry Marcy Harjo?

5. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and why did Harjo's career plans change during her first year at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

2. What is the significance of the song entitled "Weeping Willow" (34)?

3. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face and what is the significance of this fact?

4. Discuss an instance of irony that also acts as an example of foreshadowing within the part of the memoir called North.

5. What role did Jazz music play in the development of Harjo's identity?

6. For what reason did Harjo associate beauty with danger in her early childhood?

7. Discuss a moment in the part of the text entitled East when Harjo provides a feminist perspective.

8. In what unique way does Harjo reveal events that occurred prior to her birth and what does she hope to achieve?

9. For what reason did Harjo feel drawn toward the Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s?

10. How are the themes of risk and reward depicted within the part of the text entitled North?

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