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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. While in Havre, who does the narrator see the white traveler talking to?
2. While in Havre, the narrator remembers a day with his brother. Where were he and his brother going?
3. On the day the narrator and his brother are on the range, what do they decide has happened to their missing cow?
4. Why does the narrator go to Havre?
5. Before the narrator heads for Malta, what memories are brought back by the bar in Dodson?
Short Essay Questions
1. Based on the information the author has given us up to Chapter Sixteen, how is the narrator's financial situation?
2. 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?
3. What are the narrator's memories of his brother usually like?
4. In Chapter 25, what are Mose and the narrator doing out on the range?
5. How does Lame Bull treat the narrator and how does it affect him?
6. At the beginning of the book, how does the grandmother feel about the girl the narrator has brought home, and why?
7. When the narrator finally speaks with his girlfriend, how does the conversation go?
8. While herding cattle, what do Mose and the narrator decide to do that foreshadows a negative event?
9. While the narrator is fishing with Lame Bull in Chapter Four, what do they argue about, and why?
10. After meeting the traveling white man for the second time, what does the narrator think about him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why, in the entire novel, is the name of the narrator never revealed? How does this contribute to the overall theme of the book? What is a possible name for the narrator?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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