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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. While laying on the ground after his horse falls, what does the narrator find is unexpected?
(a) His sorrow at the death of his horse.
(b) The peace he feels.
(c) The numbness in his legs.
(d) The pain in his leg.

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

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

6. While pulling the cow out of the mud, what does the narrator realize about his feelings toward Lame Bull?
(a) He is better than his father.
(b) He may have killed his father.
(c) He doesn't believe he will come back.
(d) He married Teresa for her money.

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

8. After returning home from Havre, what does the narrator notice is different about his home?
(a) The truck is missing.
(b) His horse is not in the corral.
(c) His grandmother is gone.
(d) The house has been painted.

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

10. After several hard days in Havre, what does the narrator wish would happen to him?
(a) That he would be arrested and get it over with.
(b) That he would find a fortune.
(c) That he would be erased.
(d) That he would find his girlfriend.

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

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

13. After the death of the narrator's grandmother, he finds out the priest will be sent away. Where is he going?
(a) To Rome.
(b) To Lewistown.
(c) To Wyoming.
(d) To Idaho.

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

15. After the white traveler is taken away from Havre, who does the narrator wish he could find?
(a) The barmaid.
(b) His brother-in-law.
(c) His father's friend.
(d) His girlfriend.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Yellow Calf give for the grandmother being abandoned by her tribe?

2. While the narrator and Mose are herding cattle, which type of cow goes first?

3. How many years are between Yellow Calf and the old woman?

4. After returning from Havre and bathing, where does the narrator go?

5. After returning from Havre, where does Teresa say they have taken her mother's body?

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