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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 his night with Marlene, where does the narrator walk out to?

2. After his horse falls, what does the narrator see in the corner of his eye?

3. How old is Mose when he dies?

4. After several hard days in Havre, who does the narrator decide he has had enough of?

5. After going to the Palace Bar in Havre to meet the traveling white man, what does the narrator see out the window?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the narrator digs his grandmother's grave, what does he begin to think about, and what effect do his thoughts have on him?

2. 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?

3. Based on the behavior of the white traveling man, what may have happened if the narrator had driven him over the border?

4. After the narrator sleeps with Marlene, what is different about him?

5. When the narrator returns home from Havre, how does he feel?

6. While Mose and the narrator are herding cattle, what contributes to Mose's death?

7. What does the narrator think about while struggling to rescue the cow at the end of the book?

8. In Chapter 42, while the narrator begins to lose consciousness after his horse slips, what does he realize?

9. 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?

10. When the narrator sees the white man arrested, how is he treated by the other bar patrons?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the narrator have to defend the memory of his father to Lame Bull? How does their first interaction affect their relationship for the remainder of the story?

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

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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