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

2. What object did Harjo's fiance force her to pawn as soon as she reached Tahlequah?
(a) Her turquoise necklace.
(b) Her turquoise earrings.
(c) Her turquoise bracelet.
(d) Her turquoise ring.

3. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?
(a) Her friend.
(b) Her grandmother.
(c) The knowing.
(d) Her mother.

4. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?
(a) Diplomas.
(b) Tears.
(c) Children.
(d) Scars.

5. How many friends of Harjo's did she suspect had just had sex with Lupita when they came ambling toward her away from the ditch?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

3. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?

4. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?

5. Lupita was Harjo's friend and also her what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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