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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. On the title page of the part of the text entitled West, Harjo writes that west is the direction of what?

2. What did Harjo do when the promised bus ticket to Tahlequah did not arrive?

3. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?

4. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

5. In what season of the year did the Indian school put on a production of a play by Shelagh Delaney?

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 is the significance of the release form Harjo signed at the Indian hospital when she had her first child?

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

4. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.

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

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

7. At what age did Harjo become entwined in a relationship with an older Cherokee man and how did they meet?

8. Who was Louis Ballard?

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

10. What obstacle briefly stood in the way of Harjo's ability to tour the Pacific Northwest with her troupe of actors and dancers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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.

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