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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 instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?
(a) Xylophone.
(b) Flute.
(c) Drums.
(d) Saxophone.

2. About how much money did Harjo have with her when she boarded the bus for Tahlequah?
(a) 50 cents.
(b) 50 dollars.
(c) 100 dollars.
(d) 10 dollars.

3. 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 sterlize them.
(c) To give an epidural.
(d) To perform a Caesarean section.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?

3. The young men who walked away from the ditch and toward Harjo were taking what action as they walked?

4. What substance did Harjo's mother-in-law use to put a curse on Harjo, according to her husband?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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