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

2. What does Lame Bull grow on his land?

3. Besides the white traveler, who else does the narrator meet in the hotel bar in Malta?

4. How do the ducks that First Raise wins at the fair end up dying?

5. What does the narrator's father dream about, but never does?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the narrator react to people who are not from the reservation?

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

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

7. In Chapter Eight, when the narrator argues with his mother about the turkey, what is significant about their differing memories?

8. What is Yellow Calf, the old man, like?

9. After being beaten by Dougie, why doesn't the narrator retaliate?

10. In Chapter Fourteen, what impression does the girlfriend's brother give the narrator about her?

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

At the end of the book, the narrator attempts to rescue a cow and ends up nearly dying. How does this affect his outlook on life? Does that ordeal change him or does he remain unfeeling like he did at the beginning of the story?

Essay Topic 3

What is the narrator's opinion of the outside world? Recalling the encounters that the narrator has with the outside world, is his opinion warranted?

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