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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. What is the name of the bartender in the Palace Bar in Havre?

2. How does Teresa act at the funeral?

3. While digging his grandmother's grave, what memory does the narrator recall?

4. Upon Ferdinand Horn's second visit, what does the narrator tell him that surprises him?

5. After returning home from Havre, what is the first question Lame Bull asks the narrator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After the narrator's grandmother dies, what is the mood of her family?

4. 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?

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

6. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, what does he learn about his grandmother?

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

8. When Lame Bull gives the eulogy for the old woman, what is it like?

9. In Chapter 36, before Mose dies, what is the mood of the story?

10. When the narrator nearly dies in Chapter 42, what does he suddenly understand about dying?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

At the end of the book, the narrator attempts to rescue a cow and ends up nearly dying. How does this affect his outlook on life? Does that ordeal change him or does he remain unfeeling like he did at the beginning of the story?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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