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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. Where do the narrator and his family get their water?

2. What does the narrator dream about while staying in Malta?

3. How does the family celebrate the marriage of Lame Bull and Teresa?

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

5. What kind of dwelling did Lame Bull live in before?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. While he is in town, where does the narrator spend most of his time and how does this contribute to his trouble?

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

8. 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?

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

10. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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