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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 returning from Havre and bathing, where does the narrator go?
(a) To the local bar.
(b) To the living room.
(c) To the tree his brother loved.
(d) To the corral.

2. After the old woman dies, what reason do Ferdinand Horn and his wife give for stopping at the house?
(a) To offer their condolences.
(b) To drop off some beer.
(c) To visit Lame Bull.
(d) To buy some hay.

3. Where does the narrator stay with Marlene?
(a) At a friend's abandoned trailer.
(b) In the back of her car.
(c) At her house.
(d) At his hotel room.

4. While hitching a ride home from Havre, what kind of plant does the family stop their car next to for the girl to run behind?
(a) A chokecherry bush.
(b) Scrub bushes.
(c) A wild cherry tree.
(d) A stand of pines.

5. In Havre, what does the narrator do when the woman doesn't return with his money?
(a) He looks for her in the bar.
(b) He picks up his car keys.
(c) He pops her tire.
(d) He scratches her car.

Short Answer Questions

1. After returning home from Havre, the narrator decides to take a bath. What is the primary reason, besides cleaning up?

2. When the narrator visits Yellow Calf, how does the old man react to the news of the old woman's death?

3. What does the narrator decide to do while attending his grandmother's funeral?

4. How many people does the narrator say are at his grandmother's funeral?

5. After several hard days in Havre, what does the narrator wish would happen to him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. After the old woman's death, the narrator walks out on the plains alone to think. What significant event occurs while he is out there?

4. Why does First Raise take the narrator to visit Yellow Calf and why is that significant?

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

6. When the narrator returns home from Havre, what does he think about while he is alone?

7. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?

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

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

10. What kind of a relationship do the old woman and Yellow Calf have throughout the years before Teresa's birth?

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