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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 is the weather like on the day the narrator and his brother go out to the range?

2. What does the narrator give to his grandmother after Teresa and Lame Bull leave the house?

3. What weapon does the white traveler buy while the narrator is with him?

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

5. After the narrator returns home from Malta, he goes to visit an old man. What is his name?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When the narrator left the reservation and went to Tacoma, why did he leave his job there and how does this fit into the narrator's backward feelings about his heritage?

3. How does Lame Bull treat the narrator and how does it affect him?

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

5. After meeting the traveling white man for the second time, what does the narrator think about him?

6. What is Yellow Calf, the old man, like?

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

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

9. Based on the information the author has given us up to Chapter Sixteen, how is the narrator's financial situation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What differences can be pinpointed in the narrator before his brother's death, and after? Besides his age, what has changed in the behavior of the narrator since he was twelve-years-old?

Essay Topic 2

What is the goal of the main character? Toward the end of the novel, does the narrator accomplish his goal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

How does the grandmother's role in the story change by the end of the novel? How does her history affect the narrator?

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