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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. When the woman talks to the narrator outside the Havre bar, what does she offer to do for him?

2. How does Standing Bear, the husband of the grandmother, die?

3. After hitching a ride to Havre with a woman, what stops the narrator from raping her the next morning?

4. While in the bar in Havre, what does the white traveler win?

5. What is the name of the narrator's brother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the narrator react to people who are not from the reservation?

4. When the narrator goes fishing in Chapter Three, what is significant about the color of the river?

5. In Chapter Eight, when the narrator argues with his mother about the turkey, what is significant about their differing memories?

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 25, what are Mose and the narrator doing out on the range?

10. After Lame Bull becomes a proprietor, what characteristic does he adopt and what effect does it have?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How does Teresa's memory and attitudes towards his father affect the narrator? Is her influence on him positive or negative? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Is the narrator a sympathetic character? Why or why not?

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