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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 returning from Havre, where does Teresa say they have taken her mother's body?
2. While pulling the cow out of the mud, what does the narrator realize about his feelings toward Lame Bull?
3. After the grandmother's death, what does Lame Bull bring home to commemorate her life?
4. After returning from Havre, what does the narrator immediately remember about his past ?
5. After the grandmother's death, what does Yellow Calf reveal to the narrator?
Short Essay Questions
1. After spending several days in Havre, how does the narrator go about returning home, and why?
2. When the narrator returns home from Havre, how does he feel?
3. 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?
4. When the narrator sees the white man arrested, how is he treated by the other bar patrons?
5. In Chapter 36, before Mose dies, what is the mood of the story?
6. When the narrator walks out on the plains after his grandmother's death, what does he tell Old Bird?
7. Based on the behavior of the white traveling man, what may have happened if the narrator had driven him over the border?
8. 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?
9. How does Lame Bull react to the death of the grandmother?
10. After the narrator sleeps with Marlene, what is different about him?
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
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
Why does the narrator initially go after his girlfriend? How does he seem to feel about her? Does this change later in the novel, and if so, why?
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