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

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

4. Under what types of trees did the grandmother of Harjo's fiance spend each morning with her friends?

5. Harjo discusses the way in which she and her friends had defined themselves as teenagers with what element?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read a lengthy interview with Harjo. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Harjo’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of Crazy Brave.

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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