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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. What action did Harjo's stepfather threaten to take once he had promised to kill Harjo's mother and children if she ever took a particular action?

2. What type of procedure did Harjo have to undergo to determine whether she had polio or not?

3. When Harjo's mother's performance was over, with whom did Harjo long to stay?

4. On the title page of the part of the text entitled North, Harjo writes that north is the direction where which people live?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what way does Harjo use sensory details to get across a particular message to the reader in the part of the text entitled East?

3. For what reason did Harjo feel drawn toward the Haight-Ashbury district in the late 1960s?

4. In what unique way does Harjo reveal events that occurred prior to her birth and what does she hope to achieve?

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

6. 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?

7. What is Harjo's message regarding the way in which everyone must deal with their "gulfs of sadness" (15)?

8. What is the significance of the song entitled "Weeping Willow" (34)?

9. Name and discuss two themes that emerge within the epigraph of the memoir Crazy Brave.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Read a lengthy interview with Harjo. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Harjo’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Crazy Brave.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Harjo's choice to use a variety of different storytelling methods over the course of her memoir, including one italicized story within the part of the text entitled North, which Harjo openly classifies as "partially fictionalized" (78).

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