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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While speaking with Ferdinand Horn's wife for the second time, what does the narrator realize?
(a) Mrs. Horn is a relative.
(b) He is about to be sick.
(c) He has left the horse out on the pasture.
(d) He misses his girlfriend.

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

4. What tool does the narrator use to try and pull her out?
(a) His hands alone.
(b) The tractor.
(c) A rope.
(d) The truck.

5. Throughout all the years that the grandmother and Yellow Calf were separated, how far did they live from one another?
(a) Two miles.
(b) Six miles.
(c) Three miles.
(d) One mile.

6. After going to the Palace Bar in Havre to meet the traveling white man, what does the narrator see out the window?
(a) The men who beat him looking for him.
(b) His girlfriend with another man.
(c) The traveler being stuffed in a trunk.
(d) The traveler being arrested.

7. What does the narrator ultimately do to Marlene?
(a) He slaps her.
(b) He ignores her.
(c) He gives her his address.
(d) He rolls her off the bed.

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

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

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

11. After returning from Havre, what does the narrator immediately remember about his past ?
(a) Hunting with his brother.
(b) A day away from the reservation.
(c) How he has always been unhappy.
(d) A school trip.

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

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

14. After his grandmother's death, what does the narrator finally remember?
(a) His love for his mother.
(b) His brother's death.
(c) Why he loves his girlfriend.
(d) His father.

15. What is the name of the bartender in the Palace Bar in Havre?
(a) Warren.
(b) Lawrence.
(c) Randolph.
(d) Bob.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before his grandmother's funeral, what does the narrator decide to take on his visit to Yellow Calf?

2. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator find is wrong with his face?

3. After several hard days in Havre, who does the narrator decide he has had enough of?

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

5. When the narrator finds the cow drowning in the mud, of what does she remind him?

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