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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. How old is Mose when he dies?
(a) Sixteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Fourteen.
(d) Eighteen.

2. While speaking with Ferdinand Horn's wife for the second time, what does the narrator realize?
(a) Mrs. Horn is a relative.
(b) He is about to be sick.
(c) He misses his girlfriend.
(d) He has left the horse out on the pasture.

3. What is the first thing the narrator does after arriving at the Palace Bar in Havre?
(a) He washes his bloody face.
(b) He plays the quarter machine.
(c) He orders a drink.
(d) He searches for the woman who took his money.

4. After returning home from Havre, what is the first question Lame Bull asks the narrator?
(a) If he can fix the truck.
(b) Whether or not he found his girlfriend.
(c) What happened to his face.
(d) If he has the money he owes him.

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) "We shouldn't have run them."
(c) "It rains too much here."
(d) "Death always comes with a storm."

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator goes to visit Yellow Calf for the second time, what has changed about him?

2. Where does the narrator stay with Marlene?

3. After sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator decide to do?

4. While traveling home from Havre, what do the parents of the little girl in the car say has caused her illness?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When Ferdinand Horn and his wife come to offer condolences, why does the wife seem so interested in the narrator's girlfriend and how does the narrator react?

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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