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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) A stand of pines.
(b) A wild cherry tree.
(c) A chokecherry bush.
(d) Scrub bushes.

3. After his horse falls, why doesn't the narrator want to move?
(a) Because he has broken his leg.
(b) Because he is comfortable.
(c) Because he doesn't care.
(d) Because he is dying.

4. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator find is wrong with his face?
(a) Too many people know what he looks like.
(b) It is an Indian face.
(c) It is not the face of his father.
(d) His nose is swollen.

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

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

7. While the narrator and Mose are herding cattle, which type of cow goes first?
(a) The bulls.
(b) They were all together.
(c) The calves.
(d) The heifers.

8. After returning home from Havre, the narrator decides to take a bath. What is the primary reason, besides cleaning up?
(a) He wants to wash off Marlene.
(b) He wants to remember his childhood.
(c) He smells like vomit.
(d) He has been to town.

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

10. After returning home from Havre, what town's radio station does the narrator listen to while he is bathing?
(a) Havre.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Great Falls.
(d) Billings.

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

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

13. Before his grandmother's funeral, while he is out on the plains alone, what emotion does the narrator realize?
(a) Grief.
(b) Remorse.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Anger.

14. After returning from Havre and bathing, who does the narrator find is still on the ranch with him?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) His dog.
(c) The animals.
(d) His stepfather.

15. What does the narrator do after the white traveler is taken away?
(a) Gets drunk.
(b) Considers going home.
(c) Goes back to the bar.
(d) Sits on the curb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Mose when he dies?

2. What does the narrator do on his way to visit Yellow Calf, after his grandmother's death?

3. How does Mose die?

4. What does the narrator ultimately do to Marlene?

5. After the white traveler is taken away from Havre, who does the narrator wish he could find?

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