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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what element did Harjo associate beauty when she was a small child?

2. What nationality and tribe does Harjo mention when she calls Leona May Baker "a potent meeting of storytellers, teachers, and musicians" (31)?

3. How does Harjo describe her stepfather's identity?

4. To what type of music was Harjo listening when she had what she calls her "rite of passage into the world of humanity" (10)?

5. The Institute of American Indian Arts attended Harjo attended was located in which state?

Short Essay Questions

1. Soon after Harjo's family moved to the house on Independence Street, Harjo awoke to the sound of her sister crying. What was going on?

2. How and why did Harjo's career plans change during her first year at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

3. Discuss two instances when the force Harjo calls "the knowing" (71) somehow assisted her.

4. Who was Osceola and what is the significance of Harjo's connection to him?

5. Describe "the small moment" when "the earthy delight of being five years old," for Harjo, "came falling down" (41).

6. Which member of Harjo's family was born with a caul over her face and what is the significance of this fact?

7. How are the themes of risk and reward depicted within the part of the text entitled North?

8. What sort of coping mechanisms does Harjo portray as detrimental, rather than helpful?

9. Discuss an instance of irony that also acts as an example of foreshadowing within the part of the memoir called North.

10. What is the significance of the palm reader's analysis of Harjo's left hand in the part of the text entitled North?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sensory details are used frequently by Harjo in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of Crazy Brave. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Harjo’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Examine how Harjo goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments she puts forth within the pages of Crazy Brave. How does Harjo accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?

Essay Topic 3

How is the topic of shame treated within Crazy Brave and how does its treatment relate to the memoir's depicted messages?

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