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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Havre, what does the narrator do when the woman doesn't return with his money?
(a) He scratches her car.
(b) He picks up his car keys.
(c) He looks for her in the bar.
(d) He pops her tire.

2. What does the old woman wear to her own funeral?
(a) A new dress.
(b) Her traditional clothes.
(c) An old dress.
(d) A coffin.

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

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

5. After giving money to the woman in Havre, what does the narrator watch her children do as he waits?
(a) Play with the steering wheel and cry.
(b) Try to drive the car.
(c) Leave the car and go into a store.
(d) Make faces at him from the window.

6. After his second conversation with Yellow Calf, what does the narrator realize about the old man?
(a) He is his grandfather.
(b) He is his uncle.
(c) He caused his brother's death.
(d) He isn't really blind.

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

8. What does the narrator wear to his grandmother's funeral?
(a) Traditional dress.
(b) A suit Lame Bull bought for him.
(c) His regular clothes.
(d) His father's suit.

9. Outside the Palace Bar, who questions the narrator while he is standing in the crowd?
(a) A policeman.
(b) A newspaperman.
(c) The bartender.
(d) An old friend of First Raise's.

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

11. What is the first thing the narrator does after arriving at the Palace Bar in Havre?
(a) He searches for the woman who took his money.
(b) He plays the quarter machine.
(c) He orders a drink.
(d) He washes his bloody face.

12. After returning from Havre and bathing, where does the narrator go?
(a) To the corral.
(b) To the tree his brother loved.
(c) To the local bar.
(d) To the living room.

13. 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.

14. After rescuing the cow, what does the narrator realize about his male relatives as he lays on the ground?
(a) They left him too soon.
(b) They are calling him.
(c) They were the only ones he really loved.
(d) They were picky people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While hitching a ride home from Havre, what kind of plant does the family stop their car next to for the girl to run behind?

2. While pulling the cow out of the mud, what does the narrator realize about his feelings toward Lame Bull?

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

4. When the grandmother dies, why can't the family bury her immediately?

5. When Ferdinand Horn visits for the second time, what does the narrator lie to him about?

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