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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. How many hours did it take Harjo's family to drive to the location of her mother's final public singing performance?
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

2. Harjo states that she is a member of which Indian nation?
(a) The Sioux Nation.
(b) The Lakota Nation.
(c) The Creek Nation.
(d) The Puebla Nation.

3. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?
(a) Balinese.
(b) Opera.
(c) Bluegrass.
(d) Jazz.

4. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?
(a) Congestion.
(b) A headache.
(c) Nausea.
(d) Stiff muscles.

5. Harjo says that as she listened to her mother sing at her last public performance, she felt her mother's "spirit reach up and touch" (52) what?
(a) The sun.
(b) The stars.
(c) The sky.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?

2. How old was Harjo in the summer just before she entered elementary school?

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

4. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?

5. What is the color of the northerly direction, according to the epigraph for the aforementioned part?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe "the small moment" when "the earthy delight of being five years old," for Harjo, "came falling down" (41).

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

4. What is the significance of the palm reader's analysis of Harjo's left hand in the part of the text entitled North?

5. How does Harjo interpret the preacher's behavior on the day the three Mexican-American sisters come to church?

6. Who was Osceola and what is the significance of Harjo's connection to him?

7. In what way does Harjo use sensory details to get across a particular message to the reader in the part of the text entitled East?

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

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

10. Name and discuss two themes that emerge within the epigraph of the memoir Crazy Brave.

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