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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. Where does the narrator stay with Marlene?
(a) At her house.
(b) In the back of her car.
(c) At his hotel room.
(d) At a friend's abandoned trailer.

2. When the grandmother dies, why can't the family bury her immediately?
(a) Because Teresa has to raise some money.
(b) Because the grave has filled with water.
(c) Because the coroner went fishing.
(d) Because it is customary to wait.

3. Outside the Palace Bar, who questions the narrator while he is standing in the crowd?
(a) An old friend of First Raise's.
(b) The bartender.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A newspaperman.

4. After returning from Havre and bathing, who does the narrator find is still on the ranch with him?
(a) The animals.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His dog.
(d) His stepfather.

5. After digging his grandmother's grave, what does the coming storm make the narrator ponder?
(a) "The hole is going to be filled."
(b) "It rains too much here."
(c) "We shouldn't have run them."
(d) "Death always comes with a storm."

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ferdinand Horn visits for the second time, what does the narrator lie to him about?

2. While the narrator is trying to rescue the cow, what other animal appears nearby to watch?

3. After returning from Havre and bathing, where does the narrator go?

4. In Havre, what does the narrator do when the woman doesn't return with his money?

5. When the narrator finds the cow drowning in the mud, of what does she remind him?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 42, while the narrator begins to lose consciousness after his horse slips, what does he realize?

2. In Chapter 36, before Mose dies, what is the mood of the story?

3. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, how is his visit significant to the story?

4. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, what does he learn about his grandmother?

5. After the old woman's death, the narrator walks out on the plains alone to think. What significant event occurs while he is out there?

6. When the narrator walks out on the plains after his grandmother's death, what does he tell Old Bird?

7. After the narrator sleeps with Marlene, what is different about him?

8. How does Lame Bull react to the death of the grandmother?

9. After the narrator spends several days in Havre, what does he finally want to do, and why?

10. When Lame Bull gives the eulogy for the old woman, what is it like?

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