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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. How many of Harjo's mother's children attended her second wedding ceremony?

2. What was the name of the street where Harjo's mother and stepfather moved their combined families after their wedding?

3. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?

4. What kind of delight does Harjo say she lost the day she acquiesced to her mother's demand that she put on a shirt?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss a moment in the part of the text entitled East when Harjo provides a feminist perspective.

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

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

5. What events does Harjo imagine would have unfolded if a member of the family had called the police about their stepfather's abuse?

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

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

8. What sort of school was the Institute of American Indian Arts and how did Harjo feel about attending?

9. What role did Jazz music play in the development of Harjo's identity?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave. What message is Harjo sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Choose an object from Crazy Brave, such as the chocolate bar, the lizard, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within 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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