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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. When the narrator visits Yellow Calf, how does the old man react to the news of the old woman's death?
(a) He cries.
(b) He becomes angry.
(c) He seems unaffected.
(d) He speaks of memories.

2. Who first takes the narrator to see his grandfather?
(a) Mose.
(b) The old woman.
(c) Teresa.
(d) First Raise.

3. After the old woman dies, what reason do Ferdinand Horn and his wife give for stopping at the house?
(a) To drop off some beer.
(b) To visit Lame Bull.
(c) To buy some hay.
(d) To offer their condolences.

4. When Ferdinand Horn visits for the second time, what does the narrator lie to him about?
(a) The location of his mother.
(b) The number of bales on the property.
(c) Retrieving his gun.
(d) The well-being of his horse.

5. After the old woman became a widow, what does the text say Yellow Calf did for her?
(a) Made fires.
(b) Hunted.
(c) Kept others away.
(d) Built a teepee.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the death of the narrator's grandmother, he finds out the priest will be sent away. Where is he going?

2. After the grandmother's death, what does Lame Bull bring home to commemorate her life?

3. After the white traveler is taken away from Havre, who does the narrator wish he could find?

4. What does the narrator do after the white traveler is taken away?

5. After several hard days in Havre, who does the narrator decide he has had enough of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of a relationship do the old woman and Yellow Calf have throughout the years before Teresa's birth?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. Why does First Raise take the narrator to visit Yellow Calf and why is that significant?

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

9. When the narrator nearly dies in Chapter 42, what does he suddenly understand about dying?

10. After the narrator digs his grandmother's grave, what does he begin to think about, and what effect do his thoughts have on him?

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