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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Find his girlfriend once and for all.
(b) Check on her children.
(c) Rob a drunk.
(d) Leave Havre.

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

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

7. While the narrator is losing consciousness after Old Bird falls, what does he hear?
(a) Thunder.
(b) The calf calling for its mother.
(c) A bird calling.
(d) A truck motor.

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

9. While the narrator's mother is preparing for the funeral, what does the narrator believe is making his horse nervous?
(a) The coming storm.
(b) A coyote.
(c) Old age.
(d) A glimpse of a snake.

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

11. After sleeping with Marlene, what emotion does her appearance elicit in the narrator?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Pity.
(c) He doesn't feel any emotion.
(d) Anger.

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

13. After sleeping with Marlene, what about her makes it hard for the narrator to look at her?
(a) Her weight.
(b) Her facial expression.
(c) Her eyes.
(d) Her tears.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After returning home from Havre, what is the first question Lame Bull asks the narrator?

3. Throughout all the years that the grandmother and Yellow Calf were separated, how far did they live from one another?

4. What tool does the narrator use to try and pull her out?

5. Who does the narrator address that he seems to compare to himself and the fate of his people?

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