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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. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?
(a) Her second cousin.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her uncle.

2. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 0.

3. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?
(a) Her great-aunt.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her father.

4. How old was Harjo's sister Margaret when Harjo awoke to find her stepfather holding Margaret up in the air by one leg?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 12.

5. How many brothers does Harjo have?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the Seminole tribe member who refused to sign a treaty with the United States government?

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

3. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?

4. When Harjo's mother's performance was over, with whom did Harjo long to stay?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What events does Harjo imagine would have unfolded if a member of the family had called the police about their stepfather's abuse?

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

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

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