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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. Harjo states that many Indian women who gave birth at the Indian hospital unknowingly signed a form giving doctors permission to take what action?
(a) To perform an episiotomy.
(b) To give an epidural.
(c) To perform a Caesarean section.
(d) To sterlize them.

2. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?
(a) Funk.
(b) Frank Zappa.
(c) Andy Warhol.
(d) Jazz.

3. When Harjo went to stay with her fiance's grandmother, she liked to take part in the old woman's visits with her friends in what area of town?
(a) The library.
(b) The bank parking lot.
(c) The town square.
(d) The park.

4. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1972.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT an assertion Harjo's stepfather made about her in the letter he sent to Mrs. Wilhelm?

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

3. In what city did did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

5. The title page of the section entitled West states that the westerly direction is "the doorway to the" (95) 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. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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