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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. Lupita was Harjo's friend and also her what?
(a) Lab partner.
(b) Tutor.
(c) Running partner.
(d) Roommate.

2. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) what?
(a) Truth.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Ancestors.
(d) Past.

3. What substance did Harjo's mother-in-law use to put a curse on Harjo, according to her husband?
(a) Oil.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Maize.
(d) Steam.

4. The young men who walked away from the ditch and toward Harjo were taking what action as they walked?
(a) They were snickering.
(b) They were eating.
(c) They were taking shots.
(d) They were punching one another.

5. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?
(a) Music.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Dance.
(d) Visual art.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the title of the play put on by students at the Indian school Harjo attended?

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

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

4. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?

5. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

7. How did Harjo reach Tahlequah when she failed to receive the promised bus ticket in the mail?

8. What statement does Harjo make about the veracity of the italicized portion of the part entitled North?

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

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

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