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

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

3. After his second conversation with Yellow Calf, what does the narrator realize about the old man?
(a) He is his uncle.
(b) He caused his brother's death.
(c) He isn't really blind.
(d) He is his grandfather.

4. After the old woman dies, what preoccupies Ferdinand Horn during his conversation with the narrator?
(a) The narrator's appearance.
(b) His wife's attitude.
(c) HIs new rings.
(d) The number of bales in the field.

5. While laying on the ground after his horse falls, what does the narrator find is unexpected?
(a) The pain in his leg.
(b) The numbness in his legs.
(c) The peace he feels.
(d) His sorrow at the death of his horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old woman wear to her own funeral?

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

3. After several hard days in Havre, what does the narrator wish would happen to him?

4. When the grandmother dies, why can't the family bury her immediately?

5. As a child visiting Yellow Calf, what did the narrator and his escort take with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?

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

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

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

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

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

7. When the narrator returns home from Havre, what does he think about while he is alone?

8. 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?

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

10. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator determine to do and how is this different from the beginning of the book?

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