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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 decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

2. With whom did Harjo stay for the first week after she arrived in Tahlequah?

3. What type of intoxicants did Harjo, Lupita, and the rest of their friends ingest when the two girls got into trouble the next day?

4. What element of life does Harjo classify as "direct communication with the sacred" (75)?

5. The morning after the party, Harjo was asked to report to the office of which person?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What rumors did Harjo hear about her future mother-in-law and how did they compare with reality?

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

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

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 is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?

7. In what way did Harjo feel she had let Mrs. Wilhelm down in the part of the text entitled North?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the instances of irony within the narrative of Crazy Brave and analyze Harjo’s purpose for including each instance you discuss.

Essay Topic 2

Examine Harjo’s use of characterization methods to portray herself at different ages within the narrative. What effects do these characterization methods have on the themes and messages inherent in Crazy Brave?

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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