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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 take with him when he travels to Malta to find his girlfriend?

2. In Malta, what does Dougie convince the narrator to do?

3. After losing Dougie in Malta, the narrator walks through a movie theater. Who does he see on the screen?

4. After being beaten in the Havre bar, who helps the narrator?

5. While in the bar in Havre, what object does the narrator find sitting on his seat when he returns from the bathroom?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Based on his reactions so far, does the narrator seem to be a compassionate person? Why or why not?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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