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

2. While talking to the woman in the Harlem bar, where does the narrator find out she went to find work?

3. How long are Lame Bull and Teresa gone after the narrator returns home from drinking?

4. What does the white traveler offer to do for the narrator if he will help him?

5. In Chapter 13, before going to Malta, what does the narrator do for his mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. While sitting at home alone with the old woman in Chapter Five, how does the narrator relate to his grandmother?

10. Why does the narrator think Lame Bull has married his mother, and how does he feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the narrator fall in with the traveling white man? What is it about the man that attracts the narrator? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is significant about the establishments the narrator chooses to enter when he is in town? How do his choices later contribute to his wish for his shadow to disappear and for him to disappear with it?

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