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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 does the narrator decide to do while attending his grandmother's funeral?
2. Before his grandmother's funeral, what does the narrator decide to take on his visit to Yellow Calf?
3. What goes wrong at the grandmother's funeral?
4. While the narrator is trying to rescue the cow, what other animal appears nearby to watch?
5. After his horse falls, why doesn't the narrator want to move?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, what does he learn about his grandmother?
2. In Chapter 42, while the narrator begins to lose consciousness after his horse slips, what does he realize?
3. When the narrator goes out to visit Yellow Calf the second time, how is his visit significant to the story?
4. When the narrator returns home from Havre, how does he feel?
5. While the narrator is digging his grandmother's grave, what does he remember about his father?
6. After the narrator spends several days in Havre, what does he finally want to do, and why?
7. What complicates the narrator's attempt to save the cow at the end of the book?
8. In Chapter 36, before Mose dies, what is the mood of the story?
9. While the narrator is riding home from Havre, what does he notice about the little girl in the car and how is that significant?
10. What does the narrator think about while struggling to rescue the cow at the end of the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Teresa's memory and attitudes towards his father affect the narrator? Is her influence on him positive or negative? Why?
Essay Topic 2
How does the grandmother's role in the story change by the end of the novel? How does her history affect the narrator?
Essay Topic 3
Why does the narrator fall in with the traveling white man? What is it about the man that attracts the narrator? Why?
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