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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. By what age had Harjo tired of hearing the Bible misused "to prove the superiority of white people” and “to enforce the domination of women by men” (68)?
(a) 13.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 9.

2. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?
(a) Florida.
(b) Texas.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Alabama.

3. In what state was Harjo born?
(a) Oklahoma.
(b) Oregon.
(c) Washington.
(d) New Mexico.

4. 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) Bluegrass.
(c) Opera.
(d) Jazz.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which member of Harjo's family name as having been born with second sight?

4. Henry Marcy Harjo was the grandfather of which of her family members?

5. Harjo recalls coming home to find her siblings terrified at having just witnessed which person force their mother to play Russian roulette with a loaded gun?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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