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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. What kind of church had Harjo just begun to attend when her "travel through story realms stopped" (37)?
(a) Greek Orthodox.
(b) Evangelical.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Presbyterian.

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

3. What transgression did Harjo's stepfather accuse her mother of one evening when she returned from a weekly meeting with her girlfriends?
(a) Lying.
(b) Cheating.
(c) Singing.
(d) Stealing.

4. In what decade did Harjo visit a palm reader who told her that she had an "alternate lifeline" (72) on her left hand?
(a) The 2000s.
(b) The 1980s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1990s.

5. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?
(a) Earthy.
(b) Earthly.
(c) Spiritual.
(d) Fearsome.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?

3. What was NOT a symptom of polio Harjo displayed in her youth?

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

5. About what type of tree was the song Harjo's mother recorded using a particular music format?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Harjo's message regarding the way in which everyone must deal with their "gulfs of sadness" (15)?

5. Soon after Harjo's family moved to the house on Independence Street, Harjo awoke to the sound of her sister crying. What was going on?

6. What sort of coping mechanisms does Harjo portray as detrimental, rather than helpful?

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

8. For what reason does Harjo's mother stay with her second husband, even when it becomes clear that he is controlling and abusive?

9. Discuss two instances when the force Harjo calls "the knowing" (71) somehow assisted her.

10. What sort of school was the Institute of American Indian Arts and how did Harjo feel about attending?

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