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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. In Chapter 13, before going to Malta, what does the narrator do for his mother?
(a) He checks the oil on the car.
(b) He cleans out the stable.
(c) He buys her a beer.
(d) He checks the mail.

2. After losing Dougie in Malta, the narrator walks through a movie theater. Who does he see on the screen?
(a) Greta Garbo.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) Doris Day.
(d) Audrey Hepburn.

3. What is the name of the narrator's horse?
(a) Old Bird.
(b) Mo.
(c) Evenstar.
(d) Anaheim.

4. Who does the narrator's grandmother stay with after 25 years as a widow?
(a) A half-white drifter.
(b) A man on the tribal counsel.
(c) A fed.
(d) A rancher.

5. When Teresa and Lame Bull leave the house together, where do they go?
(a) To Malta.
(b) To Chinook.
(c) To Durham.
(d) To Havre.

Short Answer Questions

1. After talking to his girlfriend and being beaten in the Havre bar, what does the narrator wake up to find he is missing?

2. What does the narrator call the shack on the hill near his home?

3. In Havre, the narrator meets the white traveling man again. Why does the white man leave so quickly?

4. After hitching a ride to Havre with a woman, what stops the narrator from raping her the next morning?

5. Who does the narrator see in front of the Silver Dollar bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does the white traveling man give the narrator a positive or a negative example of how white men treat Native Americans? Why?

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

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

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

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

6. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?

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

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

9. 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?

10. While the narrator is fishing with Lame Bull in Chapter Four, what do they argue about, and why?

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