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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 the narrator give to his grandmother after Teresa and Lame Bull leave the house?

2. When the narrator arrives in Malta to find his girlfriend, where does he go first?

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

4. How much is Long Knife paid for his work on Lame Bull's ranch?

5. On the drive to Harlem, what memory do the narrator and his mother discuss?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When the narrator finally speaks with his girlfriend, how does the conversation go?

6. 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?

7. Why does the narrator agree to help the white traveling man?

8. Other than his family members, how does the narrator interact with women?

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

10. What attitude do the narrator's people have toward the Cree people, and how is this shown?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is significant about the narrator's realization that Yellow Calf is his grandfather? How does this affect him and his story? How does this fit in with the overall theme of the story?

Essay Topic 2

During the story, the narrator is drunk, robbed, beaten, and nearly arrested. How much of the narrator's background contributes to his misfortune? How much is the result of his own choices?

Essay Topic 3

Though First Raise is already dead when the story begins, what role does he play? How do his actions and example affect the narrator, both in life and in death?

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