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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. With which two tribes was Louis Ballard affiliated, according to Harjo?
(a) Choctaw and Creek.
(b) Quapaw and Cherokee.
(c) Quapaw and Seneca.
(d) Sioux and Cherokee.

2. Which person did Harjo consider the only one who had ever stood up for her against her stepfather?
(a) Clarence.
(b) Mrs. Wilhelm.
(c) Louis Ballard.
(d) Lupita.

3. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

4. What is NOT one of the elements Harjo vows to feed her son so that he will flourish?
(a) Corn.
(b) Cornbread.
(c) Dreams and stories.
(d) Beans.

5. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Cabbages.
(c) Tortillas.
(d) Rocks.

Short Answer 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?

2. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?

3. Who lent money to Harjo so that she could join her Cherokee boyfriend in Tahlequah?

4. About how long before Louis Ballard's death did Harjo last visit with him?

5. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?

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

3. With what types of traumas were many of Harjo's classmates dealing as they attended the Institute of American Indian Arts?

4. What rumors did Harjo hear about her future mother-in-law and how did they compare with reality?

5. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?

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

7. What obstacle briefly stood in the way of Harjo's ability to tour the Pacific Northwest with her troupe of actors and dancers?

8. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?

9. At what age did Harjo become entwined in a relationship with an older Cherokee man and how did they meet?

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

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