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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 old was Lupita when her mother died, according to Harjo?

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

3. Which member of the young Cherokee man's family was a healer within the tribe?

4. Harjo states that her mother-in-law used what sort of tactic to try to expel her from the house?

5. In what area of the United States did Harjo's all-Indian theater and dance troupe first tour?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. With what types of traumas were many of Harjo's classmates dealing as they attended the Institute of American Indian Arts?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who was Louis Ballard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Harjo's treatment of truth, lies, and hypocrisy within the text of Crazy Brave.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave. What message is Harjo sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?

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