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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. What tribe is the narrator's grandmother from originally?
(a) Gros Ventres.
(b) Cherokee.
(c) The Blackfeet.
(d) The Crow.

2. After talking to his girlfriend and being beaten in the Havre bar, what does the narrator wake up to find he is missing?
(a) His shoes.
(b) A tooth.
(c) His money.
(d) His car keys.

3. While in the bar in Havre, what does the white traveler win?
(a) A pack of cards.
(b) Cigarettes.
(c) Money.
(d) Candy.

4. How much is Long Knife paid for his work on Lame Bull's ranch?
(a) Twenty dollars.
(b) Two days room and board.
(c) Ten dollars.
(d) Fifty dollars.

5. What is the name of the narrator's brother?
(a) Rand.
(b) Mose.
(c) Oron.
(d) Erin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother reveal when he returns home from the bar?

2. In Chapter 5, what does the narrator find that he thinks will help him with fishing?

3. In Malta, who talks to the narrator as soon as he steps out the door of the hotel?

4. When the narrator arrives in Malta to find his girlfriend, where does he go first?

5. What weapon does the white traveler buy while the narrator is with him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Yellow Calf, the old man, like?

4. What attitude do the narrator's people have toward the Cree people, and how is this shown?

5. Why does the narrator agree to help the white traveling man?

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

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

8. At the beginning of the book, how does the narrator feel about his life?

9. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator discuss?

10. When the narrator goes fishing in Chapter Three, what is significant about the color of the river?

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