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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. After the old woman dies, what does Ferdinand Horn's wife want to know?
2. After going to the Palace Bar in Havre to meet the traveling white man, what does the narrator see out the window?
3. After returning home from Havre, what town's radio station does the narrator listen to while he is bathing?
4. Throughout all the years that the grandmother and Yellow Calf were separated, how far did they live from one another?
5. After his horse falls, why doesn't the narrator want to move?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 42, while the narrator begins to lose consciousness after his horse slips, what does he realize?
2. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, how is his visit significant to the story?
3. What complicates the narrator's attempt to save the cow at the end of the book?
4. When Lame Bull gives the eulogy for the old woman, what is it like?
5. Why does the narrator treat Marlene badly?
6. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?
7. When the narrator returns home from Havre, how does he feel?
8. When Ferdinand Horn offers his condolences, is he truly sorry?
9. After spending several days in Havre, how does the narrator go about returning home, and why?
10. After the narrator spends several days in Havre, what does he finally want to do, and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is it about the city that makes the narrator ultimately want to leave? How is this significant to the plot?
Essay Topic 2
Why, in the entire novel, is the name of the narrator never revealed? How does this contribute to the overall theme of the book? What is a possible name for the narrator?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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