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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 sisters does Harjo have?
2. After Harjo's stepfather spent the whole drive home from the singing performance berating her mother, what action did her mother take when they got home?
3. What element does Harjo say "can help raise a people up or call them to gather for war" (11)?
4. In what type of activity did Harjo's mother partake on a weekly basis with her girlfriends?
5. Harjo's mother threatened to hit her with what object if she continued to talk back about putting on a shirt?
Short Essay Questions
1. What sort of coping mechanisms does Harjo portray as detrimental, rather than helpful?
2. Name and discuss two themes that emerge within the epigraph of the memoir Crazy Brave.
3. What role did Jazz music play in the development of Harjo's identity?
4. What is Harjo's message regarding the way in which everyone must deal with their "gulfs of sadness" (15)?
5. What new behavior did Harjo's stepfather begin to exhibit each day after her mother left for work?
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. Who was Osceola and what is the significance of Harjo's connection to him?
8. What events does Harjo imagine would have unfolded if a member of the family had called the police about their stepfather's abuse?
9. How and why did Harjo's career plans change during her first year at the Institute of American Indian Arts?
10. For what reason did Harjo associate beauty with danger in her early childhood?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine how Harjo goes about connecting personal experience with the arguments she puts forth within the pages of Crazy Brave. How does Harjo accomplish this goal and how does this goal relate to the overarching themes of the text?
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
Could Crazy Brave be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
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