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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. When one of Harjo's classrooms had previously been used for "apartment living" (77) courses, what objects still lined one wall?
(a) Stoves.
(b) Sinks.
(c) Washing machines.
(d) Sewing machines.
2. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?
(a) Kansas.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Texas.
(d) Nebraska.
3. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?
(a) Her forties.
(b) Her thirties.
(c) Her twenties.
(d) Her fifties.
4. The young Cherokee man who became Harjo's lover was at least how many years old when they met?
(a) 18.
(b) 24.
(c) 21.
(d) 30.
5. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?
(a) The Pacific Northwest.
(b) New York City.
(c) The Bay Area.
(d) The Midwest.
Short Answer Questions
1. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?
2. Harjo discusses the way in which she and her friends had defined themselves as teenagers with what element?
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?
4. What instrument did Harjo's music teacher forbid her to play, causing her to quit the band?
5. How many classes did Harjo take from Louis Ballard during her time at the Institute of American Indian Arts?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?
2. How did Harjo reach Tahlequah when she failed to receive the promised bus ticket in the mail?
3. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?
4. Who was Louis Ballard?
5. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.
6. What does the line of stoves within the memoir symbolize?
7. In what way was Harjo an outlier within the troupe of actors and dancers to which she belonged?
8. What happened to Louis Ballard about five years before the publication of Crazy Brave?
9. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
10. What obstacle briefly stood in the way of Harjo's ability to tour the Pacific Northwest with her troupe of actors and dancers?
This section contains 1,075 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
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