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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 20 | Part 2, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Two white men exit a saloon and offer Tom Black Bull how much to ride 'his horse' at the end of town?
(a) A dime.
(b) A quarter.
(c) Two dollars.
(d) Fifty cents.

2. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?
(a) Calico cloth and a coat with wooden buttons.
(b) Calico material and a coat with brass buttons.
(c) Wool material and a coat with a zipper.
(d) Wool cloth and a coat with carved antler buttons.

3. Why does Tom Black Bull believe it is foolish to be a farmer?
(a) One does not turn the earth into what it does not want to be.
(b) One could pick berries and nuts that grew naturally.
(c) His parents' farming dried in a drought.
(d) Farming and gardening is women's work.

4. Tom Black Bull is taken to his new dormitory room to get what?
(a) Pencils and paper.
(b) White man's food.
(c) White man's clothes.
(d) A Holy Bible.

5. How is Tom Black Bull punished when he fights other boys?
(a) He is made to stay out in the cold.
(b) He is forced to stand in a corner.
(c) He is flogged.
(d) He is forced to make more baskets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bessie Black Bull relieved about upon her return to the mountains following her second trip to Jim Thatcher's store?

2. What happens with George Black Bull's body?

3. How many days away from the agency school does Blue Elk take Tom Black Bull and the bear cub?

4. What do Bessie and Tom Black Bull gather willow shoots and other plants for?

5. When late March arrives, Tom Black Bull knows the time has come for what?

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