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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. Harjo learned at church that anything "visionary on a personal level," (37) especially in girls or women, was what?

2. To what district of San Francisco did Harjo briefly feel compelled to move in the 1960s?

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

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

5. How much older than Harjo's mother was the man she ended up with after divorcing Harjo's father?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Harjo's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Crazy Brave.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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