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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) Cornbread.
(d) Beans.

2. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?
(a) Her forties.
(b) Her fifties.
(c) Her twenties.
(d) Her thirties.

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

4. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?
(a) Overprotective.
(b) Stingy.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Mean.

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?

2. What objects did the troupe have thrown at them as they walked along the road in one particular town?

3. Louis Ballard acted in what official capacity during Harjo's journey through school?

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

5. Harjo reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What obstacle briefly stood in the way of Harjo's ability to tour the Pacific Northwest with her troupe of actors and dancers?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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