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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 states that she was "fully ensconced" (97) in what two types of art classes, rather than being a well-rounded student?
(a) Drawing and filmmaking.
(b) Drawing and painting.
(c) Dance and painting.
(d) Poetry and painting.

2. Which member of Lupita's family had been having sex with her since her mother died?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her father.

3. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?
(a) His brother.
(b) His grandfather.
(c) His mother.
(d) His uncle.

4. The morning after the party, Harjo was asked to report to the office of which person?
(a) Mrs. Wilhelm.
(b) Leona May Baker.
(c) Henry Marcy Harjo.
(d) Louis Ballard.

5. How old was Harjo at the time she left home four months pregnant bound for Tahlequah on a bus?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 24.
(d) 17.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how much money did Harjo have with her when she boarded the bus for Tahlequah?

3. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?

4. What object does Harjo say "symbolizes the important warrior road" (106)?

5. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What clues does Harjo provide to the reader regarding the coming ability of her Cherokee boyfriend to provide for his family?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

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

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

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