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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 states that which person in her family is "one of the oldest living relatives in [her] family line" (13)?

2. Hurricane Carla moved up the entire coastline of what state before moving on to the Tulsa area?

3. Which of the five senses was the only one Harjo was able to use the night her stepfather poured liquid onto her mother?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. For what reason did Harjo associate beauty with danger in her early childhood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What new behavior did Harjo's stepfather begin to exhibit each day after her mother left for work?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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).

Essay Topic 2

Perform a biographical criticism of Crazy Brave by researching Harjo's life and work. Be sure to create a strong and specific claim focused on this particular book and then support that claim with quotes from the book and from your research of Harjo.

Essay Topic 3

Could Crazy Brave be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?

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