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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. When the grandmother dies, why can't the family bury her immediately?
2. After the grandmother's death, what does Yellow Calf reveal to the narrator?
3. After sleeping with Marlene, what about her makes it hard for the narrator to look at her?
4. While the narrator and Mose are herding cattle, which type of cow goes first?
5. After the grandmother's death, what question does the narrator continually ask Yellow Calf?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the narrator sees the white man arrested, how is he treated by the other bar patrons?
2. When Ferdinand Horn offers his condolences, is he truly sorry?
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. When the narrator walks out on the plains after his grandmother's death, what does he tell Old Bird?
5. How does Lame Bull react to the death of the grandmother?
6. While Mose and the narrator are herding cattle, what contributes to Mose's death?
7. When Lame Bull gives the eulogy for the old woman, what is it like?
8. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?
9. What kind of a relationship do the old woman and Yellow Calf have throughout the years before Teresa's birth?
10. Why does First Raise take the narrator to visit Yellow Calf and why is that significant?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is significant about the narrator's realization that Yellow Calf is his grandfather? How does this affect him and his story? How does this fit in with the overall theme of the story?
Essay Topic 2
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?
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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