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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. On the day the narrator and his brother are on the range, what do they decide has happened to their missing cow?
2. Who does the narrator see in front of the Silver Dollar bar?
3. In Havre, who does the white traveler say is following him?
4. What is the name of the narrator's horse?
5. What is the name of the narrator's girlfriend?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the narrator left the reservation and went to Tacoma, why did he leave his job there and how does this fit into the narrator's backward feelings about his heritage?
2. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?
3. In Chapter 25, what are Mose and the narrator doing out on the range?
4. After being beaten by Dougie, why doesn't the narrator retaliate?
5. When the narrator goes fishing in Chapter Three, what is significant about the color of the river?
6. Does the white traveling man give the narrator a positive or a negative example of how white men treat Native Americans? Why?
7. While the narrator is fishing with Lame Bull in Chapter Four, what do they argue about, and why?
8. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator discuss?
9. What does the narrator dislike about the relationship between the priest and his mother?
10. After Lame Bull becomes a proprietor, what characteristic does he adopt and what effect does it have?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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