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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After talking to his girlfriend and being beaten in the Havre bar, what does the narrator wake up to find he is missing?
(a) His money.
(b) His car keys.
(c) His shoes.
(d) A tooth.

2. What person does the narrator's mother drink with that he seems to dislike?
(a) The priest.
(b) Dougie.
(c) A local woman.
(d) Lame Bull.

3. In Havre, who does the white traveler say is following him?
(a) His daughter.
(b) The Mafia.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) The F.B.I.

4. After hitching a ride to Havre with a woman, what stops the narrator from raping her the next morning?
(a) Her attitude.
(b) A child in the kitchen.
(c) A noise outside.
(d) His conscience.

5. In Chapter 5, what does the narrator find that he thinks will help him with fishing?
(a) A cheap ring.
(b) A broken watch.
(c) A charm.
(d) A coupon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does First Raise die?

2. When the woman talks to the narrator outside the Havre bar, what does she offer to do for him?

3. While he is in Havre, what kind of car does the narrator end up buying?

4. In the hotel bar in Malta, the narrator meets a white man. Where is he from?

5. While out on the range, what does Mose tell the narrator he will do with the ammo he is going to buy?

Short Essay Questions

1. While he is in town, where does the narrator spend most of his time and how does this contribute to his trouble?

2. While sitting at home alone with the old woman in Chapter Five, how does the narrator relate to his grandmother?

3. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator discuss?

4. What does the narrator dislike about the relationship between the priest and his mother?

5. When the narrator left the reservation and went to Tacoma, why did he leave his job there and how does this fit into the narrator's backward feelings about his heritage?

6. Why does the narrator think Lame Bull has married his mother, and how does he feel about it?

7. In Chapter 25, what are Mose and the narrator doing out on the range?

8. When the narrator finally speaks with his girlfriend, how does the conversation go?

9. After meeting the traveling white man for the second time, what does the narrator think about him?

10. How does Lame Bull treat the narrator and how does it affect him?

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