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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. In Chapter 5, what does the narrator find that he thinks will help him with fishing?

2. Who does the narrator's grandmother stay with after 25 years as a widow?

3. While out on the range, what question does the narrator ask his brother about their father?

4. What is the name of the narrator's horse?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator dislike about the relationship between the priest and his mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At the beginning of the novel, the narrator loses his electric razor and his rifle to a woman he claims to care nothing about. How is this symbolic?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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