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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 goes wrong at the grandmother's funeral?
(a) Lame Bull doesn't attend.
(b) The wind blows the coffin over.
(c) Teresa forgets the grave marker.
(d) The coffin doesn't fit.

2. While herding cattle, where do the narrator and Mose decide to take them?
(a) Away from the valley.
(b) Across the highway.
(c) Into another pasture.
(d) To a neighboring ranch.

3. After his escapades in Havre, who does the narrator ride with on his way home?
(a) A businessman and his family.
(b) A hutterite family.
(c) A professor and his family.
(d) A rancher and his family.

4. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator decide to do?
(a) Find his girlfriend once and for all.
(b) Leave Havre.
(c) Rob a drunk.
(d) Check on her children.

5. After returning home from Havre, what town's radio station does the narrator listen to while he is bathing?
(a) Havre.
(b) Harlem.
(c) Billings.
(d) Great Falls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Teresa react to the death of her mother?

2. After sleeping with Marlene, what emotion does her appearance elicit in the narrator?

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

4. How many years did the old woman and Yellow Calf live near one another without living together?

5. While digging his grandmother's grave, what do the narrator and Lame Bull disagree about?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on the behavior of the white traveling man, what may have happened if the narrator had driven him over the border?

2. While Mose and the narrator are herding cattle, what contributes to Mose's death?

3. Why does the narrator treat Marlene badly?

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

5. How is the narrator treated by the people who give him a ride home from Havre, and how is that typical of his experiences with outsiders?

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

7. When the narrator returns home from Havre, how does he feel?

8. When Ferdinand Horn offers his condolences, is he truly sorry?

9. After spending several days in Havre, how does the narrator go about returning home, and why?

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

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