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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. While hitching a ride home from Havre, what kind of plant does the family stop their car next to for the girl to run behind?
(a) A stand of pines.
(b) Scrub bushes.
(c) A wild cherry tree.
(d) A chokecherry bush.

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 tool does the narrator use to try and pull her out?
(a) The tractor.
(b) His hands alone.
(c) A rope.
(d) The truck.

4. After going to the Palace Bar in Havre to meet the traveling white man, what does the narrator see out the window?
(a) His girlfriend with another man.
(b) The traveler being stuffed in a trunk.
(c) The men who beat him looking for him.
(d) The traveler being arrested.

5. After several hard days in Havre, who does the narrator decide he has had enough of?
(a) Women.
(b) White men.
(c) Himself.
(d) Bartenders.

Short Answer Questions

1. After returning from Havre and bathing, who does the narrator find is still on the ranch with him?

2. After his grandmother's death, what does the narrator finally remember?

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

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

5. What is the last question the man in the car asks the narrator after giving him a ride home from Havre?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator think about while struggling to rescue the cow at the end of the book?

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

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

8. Why does the narrator treat Marlene badly?

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

10. 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?

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