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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. For what reason did the music teacher prohibit Harjo from playing a particular instrument?

2. Harjo states that she was "fully ensconced" (97) in what two types of art classes, rather than being a well-rounded student?

3. What substance did Harjo's mother-in-law use to put a curse on Harjo, according to her husband?

4. In what state did Harjo begin to attend the high school called the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?

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

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

4. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?

5. In what way was Harjo an outlier within the troupe of actors and dancers to which she belonged?

6. What does the line of stoves within the memoir symbolize?

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

9. What statement does Harjo make about the veracity of the italicized portion of the part entitled North?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the interplay between the final passages of Crazy Brave and one of the memoir's main messages. How does Harjo make connections between these elements and how does their juxtaposition help them get across one main message of the memoir?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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