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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. In what type of haunted building did Harjo and her family once live when they had no money for rent?

2. What form of writing did Harjo's mother enjoy creating the most?

3. In what room of the house did Harjo awake to find her stepfather hurting her little sister Margaret?

4. The last singing performance Harjo ever saw her mother give took place at what type of event?

5. On the title page of the part of the text entitled East, Harjo writes that east is the direction of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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

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