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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 38 | Part 3, Chapter 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While en route to rendezvous with her husband, Bessie Black Bull and her son bathe in a ritual cleansing while singing what?
(a) A song to the sun rising.
(b) A song for clean souls.
(c) A song for rain.
(d) A song to the sunset.

2. What is the rodeo a wild ride of, literally and figuratively?
(a) Bumps and bruises.
(b) Ups and downs.
(c) Slips and falls.
(d) Tosses and turns.

3. Tom Black Bull seems to draw the broncos that do what?
(a) Expose his light, content nature.
(b) Reveal his nasty, yet accepting nature.
(c) Mirror his dark, vicious nature.
(d) Reflect his excited, yet satisfied nature.

4. What is it that Tom Black finally comes to realize he must face after his being crushed under the horse in Madison Square Garden?
(a) His not settling down.
(b) His punctured lung.
(c) His killing a horse.
(d) His fear.

5. Tom Black Bull tells Benny Grayback that he will agree to acclimate under what condition?
(a) If he can retrieve items from his lodge.
(b) If he can visit his parents' graves.
(c) If they will let his brother, Bear, free.
(d) If he can eat Indian meals.

Short Answer Questions

1. The other students tease Tom Black Bull about his basket weaving skill and call him what?

2. How is George Black Bull killed?

3. As Tom Black Bull moves into the big time rodeo, riding as his own man, what is he bringing Into his next stage of life?

4. What does the gold prospector do the morning after Bear's Brother spies him along the stream?

5. In what way is the gold prospector injured?

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