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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his return from Havre, what does Lame Bull tell the narrator they must do the following day?
(a) Round up the cows.
(b) Repair the fence.
(c) Dig a grave.
(d) Go see the priest.

2. While hitching a ride home from Havre, what is between the narrator and the little girl in the back seat?
(a) A dog.
(b) A tire jack.
(c) A suitcase.
(d) A case of peaches.

3. Who first takes the narrator to see his grandfather?
(a) Mose.
(b) The old woman.
(c) Teresa.
(d) First Raise.

4. While digging his grandmother's grave, what memory does the narrator recall?
(a) Digging a well.
(b) His girlfriend's face.
(c) His father's death.
(d) His brother's laugh.

5. How old is Mose when he dies?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Sixteen.

6. While the narrator is trying to rescue the cow, what other animal appears nearby to watch?
(a) A pheasant.
(b) A coyote.
(c) A magpie.
(d) A cat.

7. What is the last question the man in the car asks the narrator after giving him a ride home from Havre?
(a) If he needs money.
(b) If all Indians have that much land.
(c) If he can take his picture.
(d) If this is really where he lives.

8. After several hard days in Havre, what does the narrator wish would happen to him?
(a) That he would be arrested and get it over with.
(b) That he would be erased.
(c) That he would find his girlfriend.
(d) That he would find a fortune.

9. How many people does the narrator say are at his grandmother's funeral?
(a) Two.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

10. In the family graveyard, what material does the family use for grave markers?
(a) Plastic.
(b) Styrofoam.
(c) Metal.
(d) Clay.

11. Where does the family decide to bury the narrator's grandmother?
(a) On their own land.
(b) Beside her first home.
(c) In the cemetery in town.
(d) On a designated burial ground.

12. Before his grandmother's funeral, what does the narrator decide to take on his visit to Yellow Calf?
(a) His grandmother's pipe.
(b) A bottle of wine.
(c) A bundle of tobacco.
(d) An axe.

13. When the narrator finds the cow drowning in the mud, of what does she remind him?
(a) A bug in a puddle.
(b) His grandmother's face.
(c) His brother's death.
(d) Yellow Calf's history.

14. How many years did the old woman and Yellow Calf live near one another without living together?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Forty.
(c) Thirty-five.
(d) Twenty-five.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While traveling home from Havre, what do the parents of the little girl in the car say has caused her illness?

2. How does Mose die?

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

4. While herding cattle, where do the narrator and Mose decide to take them?

5. After his horse falls, why doesn't the narrator want to move?

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