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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 sleeping with Marlene, what does the narrator find is wrong with his face?

2. After sleeping with Marlene, what emotion does her appearance elicit in the narrator?

3. While hitching a ride home from Havre, what kind of plant does the family stop their car next to for the girl to run behind?

4. While the narrator and Mose are herding cattle, which type of cow goes first?

5. Outside the Palace Bar, who questions the narrator while he is standing in the crowd?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?

3. 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?

4. After the narrator spends several days in Havre, what does he finally want to do, and why?

5. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, how is his visit significant to the story?

6. How does Lame Bull react to the death of the grandmother?

7. Why does First Raise take the narrator to visit Yellow Calf and why is that significant?

8. At the very end of the book, what does the narrator determine to do and how is this different from the beginning of the book?

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

10. 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?

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

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

Throughout the course of the novel the narrator interacts with a number of different people. What do his experiences with other people say about his character?

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