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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. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Texas.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Oklahoma.

2. In what year was "a huge oil gusher" (13) discovered on land partly owned by Henry Marcy Harjo?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1895.

3. About what type of tree was the song Harjo's mother recorded using a particular music format?
(a) An oak tree.
(b) A willow tree.
(c) A eucalyptus tree.
(d) A palm tree.

4. In what liquid did Harjo's stepfather douse her mother on the night she came home from a weekly visit with her girlfriends?
(a) Juice.
(b) Water.
(c) Gasoline.
(d) Beer.

5. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Evil.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Worthy of attention.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?

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

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

5. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

6. What new behavior did Harjo's stepfather begin to exhibit each day after her mother left for work?

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

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

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

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

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