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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 does the narrator take with him when he travels to Malta to find his girlfriend?

2. While out on the range, what food do the narrator and his brother have with them?

3. What is the weather like on the day the narrator and his brother go out to the range?

4. Why does the narrator go to Havre?

5. When the narrator meets a woman in the bar in Harlem, what initials are tattooed on her ring finger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on the information the author has given us up to Chapter Sixteen, how is the narrator's financial situation?

2. At the beginning of the book, how does the grandmother feel about the girl the narrator has brought home, and why?

3. While he is in town, where does the narrator spend most of his time and how does this contribute to his trouble?

4. How does Lame Bull treat the narrator and how does it affect him?

5. When the narrator finally speaks with his girlfriend, how does the conversation go?

6. Other than his family members, how does the narrator interact with women?

7. Based on his reactions so far, does the narrator seem to be a compassionate person? Why or why not?

8. While sitting at home alone with the old woman in Chapter Five, how does the narrator relate to his grandmother?

9. Why does the narrator agree to help the white traveling man?

10. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the goal of the main character? Toward the end of the novel, does the narrator accomplish his goal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

What is significant about the narrator's realization that Yellow Calf is his grandfather? How does this affect him and his story? How does this fit in with the overall theme of the story?

Essay Topic 3

During the story, the narrator is drunk, robbed, beaten, and nearly arrested. How much of the narrator's background contributes to his misfortune? How much is the result of his own choices?

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