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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. When Harjo located Lupita at the party, Lupita joked that she had been on what planet?
(a) Mars.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Saturn.
(d) Venus.

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

3. 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) An alligator.
(d) A snake.

4. In what town during the troupe's tour did the town's citizens throw objects at the troupe's members?
(a) Oklahoma City.
(b) Buffalo.
(c) Seattle.
(d) La Grande.

5. Who promised to send Harjo a bus ticket to Tahlequah?
(a) Her Cherokee boyfriend.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her advisor.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?

2. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?

3. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?

4. How many classes did Harjo take from Louis Ballard during her time at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

5. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Who was Mrs. Wilhelm and what did she do to surprise Harjo soon after Harjo's arrival at the art institute?

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

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

9. What secret was Harjo keeping by the time she came back from touring the Pacific Northwest with the troupe of dancers and actors?

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

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