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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 did Mrs. Wilhelm do with the letter Harjo's stepfather sent to her disparaging Harjo's character?
(a) She gave it back to Harjo.
(b) She gave it to the police.
(c) She ripped it up.
(d) She burned it.

2. Who lent money to Harjo so that she could join her Cherokee boyfriend in Tahlequah?
(a) Stan.
(b) Ray.
(c) Allen.
(d) Max.

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

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

5. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Cabbages.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Tortillas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

2. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?

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

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

5. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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