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

2. What marker does Harjo use to set the poetry and partly-fictional story in the memoir off from the rest of the text?

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

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

5. Which adjective was NOT mentioned by the people who warned Harjo about her soon-to-be mother-in-law?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What types of coping methods did Harjo's peers use to deal with the negative effects of trauma?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What messages does Harjo send to the audience about the themes of isolation and outreach?

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

Discuss Harjo's choice to tell the story of Crazy Brave using both prose and poetry. What elements of the memoir's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Harjo’s intended effects on the reader?

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