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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. Who does the narrator see in front of the Silver Dollar bar?

2. Besides the white traveler, who else does the narrator meet in the hotel bar in Malta?

3. How does First Raise die?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How does the narrator react to people who are not from the reservation?

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

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

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

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 is the goal of the main character? Toward the end of the novel, does the narrator accomplish his goal? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the narrator initially go after his girlfriend? How does he seem to feel about her? Does this change later in the novel, and if so, why?

Essay Topic 3

How does the grandmother's role in the story change by the end of the novel? How does her history affect the narrator?

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