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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While in Malta, what is the narrator constantly afraid of as he walks through town?
(a) Meeting his girlfriend's new man.
(b) Racist college students.
(c) Other Native Americans.
(d) The police.

2. When the narrator works in the rehabilitation clinic, why does he decide to leave?
(a) They only hired him because he was Indian.
(b) His leg hurt him too much.
(c) He became tired of the labor.
(d) He was fired.

3. While thinking about a day with his brother, the narrator remembers that his brother said they shouldn't leave their work until the next day. What is the reason?
(a) The priest was coming.
(b) They would be able to go fishing.
(c) A blizzard was coming.
(d) Their father would beat them.

4. While in the bar in Havre, what object does the narrator find sitting on his seat when he returns from the bathroom?
(a) A teddy bear.
(b) A bottle of beer.
(c) A pack of cards.
(d) A gun.

5. In Malta, who talks to the narrator as soon as he steps out the door of the hotel?
(a) A child.
(b) A cop.
(c) A man.
(d) A woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money does the narrator give to the woman who talks to him after he has been beaten in Havre?

2. What tribe is the narrator's grandmother from originally?

3. After the narrator returns home from Malta, he goes to visit an old man. What is his name?

4. In the cafe in Havre, what happens after the white traveler leaves?

5. While in Malta, why does the narrator decide he doesn't like the priest who drinks with his mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator think Lame Bull has married his mother, and how does he feel about it?

2. How does the narrator react to people who are not from the reservation?

3. When Lame Bull and Teresa return from Malta in Chapter Six, what is different about them and how does this change the direction of the plot?

4. Based on his reactions so far, does the narrator seem to be a compassionate person? Why or why not?

5. What does the narrator dislike about the relationship between the priest and his mother?

6. When the narrator left the reservation and went to Tacoma, why did he leave his job there and how does this fit into the narrator's backward feelings about his heritage?

7. After meeting the traveling white man for the second time, what does the narrator think about him?

8. Based on the information the author has given us up to Chapter Sixteen, how is the narrator's financial situation?

9. In Chapter 25, what are Mose and the narrator doing out on the range?

10. While he is in town, where does the narrator spend most of his time and how does this contribute to his trouble?

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