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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. 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?
(a) Allen.
(b) Harjo's stepfather.
(c) Lupita.
(d) Harjo's biological father.

2. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?
(a) Literature.
(b) Music.
(c) Hardship.
(d) Dance.

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

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

5. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?
(a) A church.
(b) A motel.
(c) A two-story house.
(d) A school.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?

2. A poem included at the start of the part entitled North states that "the door to the mind should open only from the" (46) what?

3. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

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

5. What is NOT a substance Harjo classifies as a "plant medicine" (66)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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