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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 Malta, what does Dougie convince the narrator to do?
(a) Help him rob a drunk.
(b) Buy him a beer.
(c) Give him some cash.
(d) Break into a car.

2. While in Malta, why does the narrator decide he doesn't like the priest who drinks with his mother?
(a) He argues with the narrator every time he sees him.
(b) He's catholic.
(c) He's cheap.
(d) He won't go on the reservation.

3. What person does the narrator's mother drink with that he seems to dislike?
(a) Dougie.
(b) A local woman.
(c) The priest.
(d) Lame Bull.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Malta, what subject does the narrator argue with the other hotel bar patrons about?

2. While out on the range, what food do the narrator and his brother have with them?

3. What event does the narrator discuss with Lame Bull while fishing at the river?

4. In the hotel bar in Malta, the narrator meets a white man. Where is he from?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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