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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. In Havre, what does the narrator do when the woman doesn't return with his money?
(a) He scratches her car.
(b) He picks up his car keys.
(c) He pops her tire.
(d) He looks for her in the bar.

2. After his horse falls, what does the narrator wonder about his brother and father?
(a) If he is about to join them.
(b) If they are cold.
(c) If they are comfortable.
(d) If they feared death.

3. After his return from Havre, what does Lame Bull tell the narrator they must do the following day?
(a) Go see the priest.
(b) Dig a grave.
(c) Round up the cows.
(d) Repair the fence.

4. What does the old woman wear to her own funeral?
(a) Her traditional clothes.
(b) A new dress.
(c) An old dress.
(d) A coffin.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many people does the narrator say are at his grandmother's funeral?

3. Who does the narrator address that he seems to compare to himself and the fate of his people?

4. After his horse falls, why doesn't the narrator want to move?

5. While laying on the ground after his horse falls, what does the narrator find is unexpected?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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