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

2. 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 snake.
(c) A bird.
(d) An alligator.

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

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

5. 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) Methamphetamines.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Marijuana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what types of trees did the grandmother of Harjo's fiance spend each morning with her friends?

2. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

3. Harjo's Cherokee boyfriend had a daughter named Ratatonia who was how old at the time Harjo traveled to Tahlequah?

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

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

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

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

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