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How does the setting illustrate the conflict in the poem?

• The setting of the city illustrates how the father’s life is in conflict with his culture, which is rooted in the natural world.

• The setting alternates between the city and the hunting grounds, illustrating how the father never adapted to either environment.

• The setting of the hunting grounds illustrates how the father lost his spiritual connection to the buffalo after their extinction.

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What idea is developed by the imagery in the lines “in the night I heard / his buffalo grunts like a snore”?

• The father cannot sleep peacefully in the city.

• The father’s true self is with his native culture.

• The man’s family is disturbed by his refusal to let go of the past.

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The most likely reason the poet wrote this poem is to —

• describe her father and how he lives

• inform people about Native traditions

• honor her father and his traditions

• ensure Native traditions are preserved

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Reread line 18.

"I remember the silence of his lost power,"

This line suggests that the speaker —

• thinks her father is weak

• understands the depth of her father’s loss

• lacks respect for her father

• remembers her father as not speaking much

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Which item is a symbol of the father’s traditional culture?

• Stockyards

• Car aerial

• Bow string

• Packing house

How does the tone of the poem reflect a theme?

• The hopeful tone reflects how the speaker observes the ways in which her father has adjusted to his new life in the city.

• The sad tone reflects how the speaker observes the ways in which her father experiences the loss of his culture and authority.

• The angry tone reflects how the speaker observes the deteriorating relationship between her mother and father.

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What does the poem reveal about the father? 

• His day-to-day life has been stripped of cultural significance.

• He enjoys city life but wishes he had made different choices.

• He worries that he is unable to provide for his family.

• He adopts a life that is simple but fulfilling.

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    This poem refers to two settings, a modern American city and the father’s culture of origin. What is the poet’s purpose in contrasting these two settings? Cite evidence from the poem to support your answer.

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