Questions from “Hard Riding”
  D'Arcy McNickle

Questions written by first period students:

1. What will happen?
2. What does the title have to do with the story?
3. How did Indians feel about the government?
4. Why did the Council choose the three stooges to be judges?
5. Why does the Superintendent want Indians to raise cattle?
6. How did the Superintendent get his job?
7. Why is Brinder Mather impatient with the Indians?
8. Why does the story start with a description of riding a horse?

Questions from fifth period:

1. Why don’t the Indians mind the stolen cattle?
2. Why did they choose fools for judges?
3. Why is the topic of cattle so important to Mather?
4. Why doesn’t the Council want a court?
5. Why does the Superintendent care whether cattle are stolen?
6. What is the “Superintendent” and how did he get his job?