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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. How does Teresa react to the death of her mother?
2. After his horse falls, what does the narrator wonder about his brother and father?
3. After the grandmother's death, what question does the narrator continually ask Yellow Calf?
4. What does the narrator decide to do while attending his grandmother's funeral?
5. After the death of the narrator's grandmother, he finds out the priest will be sent away. Where is he going?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Ferdinand Horn and his wife come to offer condolences, why does the wife seem so interested in the narrator's girlfriend and how does the narrator react?
2. When the narrator walks out on the plains after his grandmother's death, what does he tell Old Bird?
3. How is the narrator treated by the people who give him a ride home from Havre, and how is that typical of his experiences with outsiders?
4. After the old woman's death, the narrator walks out on the plains alone to think. What significant event occurs while he is out there?
5. How does Lame Bull react to the death of the grandmother?
6. While the narrator is riding home from Havre, what does he notice about the little girl in the car and how is that significant?
7. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, what does he learn about his grandmother?
8. When the narrator nearly dies in Chapter 42, what does he suddenly understand about dying?
9. What kind of a relationship do the old woman and Yellow Calf have throughout the years before Teresa's birth?
10. After the narrator's grandmother dies, what is the mood of her family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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 differences can be pinpointed in the narrator before his brother's death, and after? Besides his age, what has changed in the behavior of the narrator since he was twelve-years-old?
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