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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lame Bull start wearing as the new proprietor of a large ranch?

2. What does the woman who helps the narrator outside the bar in Havre look like?

3. What tribe is the narrator's grandmother from originally?

4. What does the narrator take with him when he travels to Malta to find his girlfriend?

5. After meeting the white traveler in Havre, where does the narrator suggest the man take him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the narrator's memories of his brother usually like?

2. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?

3. At the beginning of the book, how does the grandmother feel about the girl the narrator has brought home, and why?

4. While the narrator is fishing with Lame Bull in Chapter Four, what do they argue about, and why?

5. At the beginning of the book, how does the narrator feel about his life?

6. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator discuss?

7. In Chapter Fourteen, what impression does the girlfriend's brother give the narrator about her?

8. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator decide to do that foreshadows a negative event?

9. While he is in town, where does the narrator spend most of his time and how does this contribute to his trouble?

10. When Lame Bull and Teresa return from Malta in Chapter Six, what is different about them and how does this change the direction of the plot?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is it about the city that makes the narrator ultimately want to leave? How is this significant to the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Numerous times throughout the story, the narrator has to remind different characters of his age. How does this necessity contribute to the main character's difficulties? Why does he sometimes have to remind himself that he is thirty-two-years-old?

Essay Topic 3

Why does the narrator have to defend the memory of his father to Lame Bull? How does their first interaction affect their relationship for the remainder of the story?

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