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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. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?
(a) Shamans.
(b) Magicians.
(c) Difficult teachers.
(d) Doctors.

2. How old was Harjo when she exhibited symptoms of polio?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 16.
(d) 12.

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. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?
(a) A switch.
(b) Her hand.
(c) A wooden spoon.
(d) A belt.

5. Harjo's stepfather threatened to kill her mother and her children if her mother ever took what action?
(a) Left him.
(b) Cheated on him.
(c) Called the police.
(d) Hit him back.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

2. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

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

4. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?

5. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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