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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. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?
(a) Angry.
(b) Saddened.
(c) Apathetic.
(d) Surprised.

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

3. 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.

4. How many high school students, including Harjo, were members of the all-Indian dance and drama troupe?
(a) 4.
(b) 10.
(c) 6.
(d) 2.

5. How many months of restriction did Harjo and Lupita receive as punishment for their transgressions at school?
(a) 6.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?

2. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?

3. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

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

5. The items along the wall in one of Harjo's classrooms at the art institute were used to train Indian students to work for what kinds of families upon graduation?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What link does Harjo suggest exists between creativity and healing?

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

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

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

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

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