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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What goes wrong at the grandmother's funeral?
(a) The coffin doesn't fit.
(b) The wind blows the coffin over.
(c) Lame Bull doesn't attend.
(d) Teresa forgets the grave marker.

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

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

6. 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.

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 can take his picture.
(b) If all Indians have that much land.
(c) If he needs money.
(d) If this is really where he lives.

8. When the grandmother dies, why can't the family bury her immediately?
(a) Because Teresa has to raise some money.
(b) Because the coroner went fishing.
(c) Because it is customary to wait.
(d) Because the grave has filled with water.

9. After digging his grandmother's grave, what does the coming storm make the narrator ponder?
(a) "We shouldn't have run them."
(b) "Death always comes with a storm."
(c) "It rains too much here."
(d) "The hole is going to be filled."

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

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

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

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

14. As a child visiting Yellow Calf, what did the narrator and his escort take with them?
(a) Liquor.
(b) A bag of deer meat.
(c) Rubber boots.
(d) Grain.

15. While Mose and the narrator are herding cattle, what goes wrong?
(a) The narrator became lost.
(b) A calf became stuck in a coulee.
(c) The weather spooked the cattle.
(d) The spinster wouldn't go through the gate.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator goes to visit Yellow Calf for the second time, what has changed about him?

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

3. While the narrator is losing consciousness after Old Bird falls, what does he hear?

4. When the narrator finds the cow trapped in the mud, what is his first reaction?

5. What is the first name of the narrator's father?

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