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

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

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

4. In Havre, who does the white traveler say is following him?
(a) The Mafia.
(b) His daughter.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) The F.B.I.

5. What does Lame Bull grow on his land?
(a) Sugar beets.
(b) Hay.
(c) Corn.
(d) Wheat.

Short Answer Questions

1. While in Malta, what does the narrator do with the letter he picked up for his mother in Dodson?

2. What is the name of the narrator's horse?

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

4. What does the woman who helps the narrator outside the bar in Havre look like?

5. In Chapter 11, in what sport does Lame Bull's friend say that Long Knife was a champion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While sitting at home alone with the old woman in Chapter Five, how does the narrator relate to his grandmother?

3. In Chapter Fourteen, what impression does the girlfriend's brother give the narrator about her?

4. When the narrator finally speaks with his girlfriend, how does the conversation go?

5. At the beginning of the book, how does the grandmother feel about the girl the narrator has brought home, and why?

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

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

8. What are the narrator's memories of his brother usually like?

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

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

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