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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 reports that John Staudenmaier had taught her to "pay attention to the poetry of" (77) what?

2. How did Harjo and the other members of the troupe feel when they heard citizens of a particular town call them "Dirty Indians" (99)?

3. How old was Harjo at the time she left home four months pregnant bound for Tahlequah on a bus?

4. In what year did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?

5. Which artist or genre is NOT mentioned by Harjo in her list of four favorites from her adolescence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Louis Ballard about five years before the publication of Crazy Brave?

2. In what way did Harjo's mother-in-law's cruelty come back to haunt her?

3. Who was Louis Ballard?

4. In what way does Harjo associate the Institute of American Indian Arts with the motif of paths and journeys?

5. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?

6. What was the primary emotion Harjo felt upon arriving at the Institute of American Indian Arts?

7. What secret was Harjo keeping by the time she came back from touring the Pacific Northwest with the troupe of dancers and actors?

8. How did Harjo reach Tahlequah when she failed to receive the promised bus ticket in the mail?

9. Who was Mrs. Wilhelm and what did she do to surprise Harjo soon after Harjo's arrival at the art institute?

10. What link does Harjo suggest exists between creativity and healing?

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

Discuss Harjo's purpose for juxtaposing at least two different locations in a particular way within the text of Crazy Brave.

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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