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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. What kind of priest was John Staudenmaier studying to be when Harjo met him?
2. In what city did did Harjo begin to attend the Institute of American Indian Arts?
3. What was Lupita doing when Harjo arrived at the office to which she had been summoned?
4. Harjo says that she started school at the Institute of American Indian Arts, she was "fresh from escaping the emotional" what "of her childhood" (73)?
5. Who or what does Harjo now believe was the source of her decision to take an acting class?
Short Essay Questions
1. Name one decision in Harjo's life that she now attributes to the knowing.
2. What is the significance of the release form Harjo signed at the Indian hospital when she had her first child?
3. In what way does Harjo associate the Institute of American Indian Arts with the motif of paths and journeys?
4. In what town did the members of the Indian acting and dancing troupe experience blatant racism and what form did it take?
5. What was the primary emotion Harjo felt upon arriving at the Institute of American Indian Arts?
6. At what age did Harjo become entwined in a relationship with an older Cherokee man and how did they meet?
7. With what types of traumas were many of Harjo's classmates dealing as they attended the Institute of American Indian Arts?
8. What punishment did Lupita and Harjo receive for their transgression at school near the end of the part of the memoir entitled North?
9. In what way is the theme of a cyclical existence depicted in the epigraph Harjo includes for the part of the text entitled West?
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
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
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
How do the themes of deception and secrecy function within Crazy Brave and what is Harjo’s message regarding these themes?
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