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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his escapades in Havre, who does the narrator ride with on his way home?
(a) A professor and his family.
(b) A rancher and his family.
(c) A hutterite family.
(d) A businessman and his family.

2. What does the narrator decide to do while attending his grandmother's funeral?
(a) Ask his girlfriend to marry him.
(b) Buy a new horse.
(c) Visit Yellow Calf more often.
(d) Get a job in the city.

3. When the narrator goes to visit Yellow Calf for the second time, what has changed about him?
(a) He wears shoes.
(b) He is unhappy.
(c) He has sunk into dementia.
(d) He has cut his hand.

4. While herding cattle, where do the narrator and Mose decide to take them?
(a) To a neighboring ranch.
(b) Across the highway.
(c) Away from the valley.
(d) Into another pasture.

5. After the old woman dies, what reason do Ferdinand Horn and his wife give for stopping at the house?
(a) To buy some hay.
(b) To offer their condolences.
(c) To drop off some beer.
(d) To visit Lame Bull.

6. While traveling home from Havre, what do the parents of the little girl in the car say has caused her illness?
(a) She is upset.
(b) She is making it up.
(c) The water.
(d) The heat.

7. After the grandmother's death, what does Yellow Calf reveal to the narrator?
(a) That the grandmother owed him money.
(b) That he truly owned Lame Bull's land.
(c) That the grandmother was not Blackfeet.
(d) That he knew the narrator's grandmother.

8. After the old woman dies, what preoccupies Ferdinand Horn during his conversation with the narrator?
(a) HIs new rings.
(b) The narrator's appearance.
(c) His wife's attitude.
(d) The number of bales in the field.

9. How does Teresa react to the death of her mother?
(a) She becomes angry.
(b) She disappears into her bedroom.
(c) She becomes drunk.
(d) She begins working too hard.

10. What is the first name of the narrator's father?
(a) John.
(b) Robert.
(c) Jack.
(d) Lucas.

11. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Rob a drunk.
(b) Check on her children.
(c) Find his girlfriend once and for all.
(d) Leave Havre.

12. When the narrator visits Yellow Calf, how does the old man react to the news of the old woman's death?
(a) He becomes angry.
(b) He cries.
(c) He seems unaffected.
(d) He speaks of memories.

13. After his night with Marlene, where does the narrator walk out to?
(a) Toward Chinook.
(b) To another bar.
(c) Away from Havre.
(d) To the old buffalo jump.

14. What does the narrator do on his way to visit Yellow Calf, after his grandmother's death?
(a) He breaks the fence.
(b) He becomes lost.
(c) He cries.
(d) He sits alone under a tree.

15. After returning home from Havre, what does the narrator notice is different about his home?
(a) The truck is missing.
(b) His horse is not in the corral.
(c) His grandmother is gone.
(d) The house has been painted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is notable about the narrator's last walk through Havre?

2. After the old woman dies, what does Ferdinand Horn's wife want to know?

3. While laying on the ground after his horse falls, what does the narrator find is unexpected?

4. Before his grandmother's funeral, while he is out on the plains alone, what emotion does the narrator realize?

5. In the family graveyard, what material does the family use for grave markers?

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