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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. After returning home from Havre, the narrator decides to take a bath. What is the primary reason, besides cleaning up?
(a) He wants to wash off Marlene.
(b) He wants to remember his childhood.
(c) He has been to town.
(d) He smells like vomit.

2. How many people does the narrator say are at his grandmother's funeral?
(a) Six.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. After his night with Marlene, where does the narrator walk out to?
(a) Toward Chinook.
(b) To another bar.
(c) Away from Havre.
(d) To the old buffalo jump.

4. While the narrator's mother is preparing for the funeral, what does the narrator believe is making his horse nervous?
(a) A glimpse of a snake.
(b) Old age.
(c) A coyote.
(d) The coming storm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After digging his grandmother's grave, what does the coming storm make the narrator ponder?

2. Where does the family decide to bury the narrator's grandmother?

3. What does the narrator wear to his grandmother's funeral?

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

5. How does Mose die?

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. What complicates the narrator's attempt to save the cow at the end of the book?

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

4. When the narrator sees the white man arrested, how is he treated by the other bar patrons?

5. While the narrator is riding home from Havre, what does he notice about the little girl in the car and how is that significant?

6. After the narrator's grandmother dies, what is the mood of her family?

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

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

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

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

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