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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. Before Harjo, her husband, and her children moved to Tulsa, one of her "mother-in-law's enemies came to her as a" (109) what?

2. In what decade of her life did Harjo revisit her desire to create music?

3. What objects does Harjo say acted as evidence that she and many other young women "wanted to live" (78)?

4. Louis Ballard acted in what official capacity during Harjo's journey through school?

5. In what season of the year did a friend of Harjo's suggest that she take an acting class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What clues does Harjo provide to the reader regarding the coming ability of her Cherokee boyfriend to provide for his family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the topic of shame treated within Crazy Brave and how does its treatment relate to the memoir's depicted messages?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Could Crazy Brave be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?

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