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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. What is the name of the narrator's brother?
(a) Rand.
(b) Mose.
(c) Oron.
(d) Erin.

2. While in Malta, what is the narrator constantly afraid of as he walks through town?
(a) The police.
(b) Meeting his girlfriend's new man.
(c) Racist college students.
(d) Other Native Americans.

3. While in Malta, why does the narrator decide he doesn't like the priest who drinks with his mother?
(a) He won't go on the reservation.
(b) He argues with the narrator every time he sees him.
(c) He's catholic.
(d) He's cheap.

4. In Malta, what subject does the narrator argue with the other hotel bar patrons about?
(a) Money.
(b) Politics.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Women.

5. Who does the narrator see in front of the Silver Dollar bar?
(a) His girlfriend.
(b) An old acquaintance.
(c) His mother.
(d) The man he robbed in Malta.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of dwelling did Lame Bull live in before?

2. While in Havre, the narrator remembers a day with his brother. Where were he and his brother going?

3. What does the narrator find in his father's toolbox that he takes fishing with him?

4. While in Havre, who does the narrator see the white traveler talking to?

5. After the encounter with Long Knife, where does the narrator hear that his girlfriend has gone?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After meeting with his girlfriend and being beaten, why does the narrator agree to drink with another woman?

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

4. At the beginning of the book, how does the narrator feel about his life?

5. Other than his family members, how does the narrator interact with women?

6. While the narrator is fishing with Lame Bull in Chapter Four, what do they argue about, and why?

7. Why does the narrator agree to help the white traveling man?

8. When the narrator goes fishing in Chapter Three, what is significant about the color of the river?

9. Based on his reactions so far, does the narrator seem to be a compassionate person? Why or why not?

10. Does the white traveling man give the narrator a positive or a negative example of how white men treat Native Americans? Why?

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