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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. Before Harjo, her husband, and her children moved to Tulsa, one of her "mother-in-law's enemies came to her as a" (109) what?
(a) A rhinoceros.
(b) A bird.
(c) A snake.
(d) An alligator.

2. What is the meaning of the Cherokee name Wynema, according to Harjo?
(a) Swift wind.
(b) Handsome man.
(c) Beautiful woman.
(d) Spring rain.

3. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Methamphetamines.

4. To whose house did Harjo return after the troupe's tour was over?
(a) Her brother's.
(b) Her stepfather's.
(c) Her aunt's.
(d) Her boss's.

5. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?
(a) 21.
(b) 24.
(c) 30.
(d) 18.

Short Answer Questions

1. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?

2. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

3. What did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?

4. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?

5. Harjo states that she was "fully ensconced" (97) in what two types of art classes, rather than being a well-rounded student?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Harjo's mother-in-law's cruelty come back to haunt her?

2. What was the primary emotion Harjo felt upon arriving at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

3. What does the line of stoves within the memoir symbolize?

4. In what way does Harjo associate the Institute of American Indian Arts with the motif of paths and journeys?

5. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?

6. What is the significance of the release form Harjo signed at the Indian hospital when she had her first child?

7. What happened to Louis Ballard about five years before the publication of Crazy Brave?

8. Who was Louis Ballard?

9. What link does Harjo suggest exists between creativity and healing?

10. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.

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