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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Mexican ex-bronco rider that now cooks is correct when he says what?
(a) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, but the horse and Tom do not win.
(b) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, the horse wins, and Tom wins.
(c) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, the horse wins, but Tom does not win.
(d) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, Tom wins, but the horse does not win.

2. In addition to assisting ewes and lambs through the difficulty of birth, Tom Black Bull helps protect against what?
(a) Bears.
(b) Racoons.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Rattlesnakes.

3. What is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
(a) Raising hogs.
(b) Farming corn.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Raising chickens and turkeys.

4. Who does Tom Black Bull join with to become a bronco rider?
(a) Bill Edwards.
(b) Red Dillon.
(c) Ed Porter.
(d) Marty Redmond.

5. Upon returning to the school, to what task is Tom Black Bull assigned at the Cobbler's Shop?
(a) Making shoes and belts.
(b) Making leashes and harnesses.
(c) Making belts and suspenders.
(d) Making quirts and bridles.

Short Answer Questions

1. When his plowing fails, Tom Black Bull is next set to task as what?

2. When Tom Black Bull lets some animals get ill eating green corn, he is put back in the barn for how long before he goes to the horses?

3. When Jim Thatcher tells Bessie Black Bull that Frank No Deer's death was self-defense, what does she do?

4. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?

5. The last time Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel to find his instructor asleep and drunk again, he does what?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 28, what is it that the reader learns has changed for Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull upon going back to Colorado?

2. What is the bear cub that is shackled in the corral symbolic of?

3. What are the 'old ways' Bessie Black Bull teaches Tom as they escape Pagosa and flee into Horse Mountain to link up with her husband, George?

4. What causes Tom Black's nightmares to cease?

5. How does Red Dillon use Tom Black Bull to make money on his initial scam?

6. What are some reasons Tom Black decides that he must return to the rodeo?

7. After returning to Pagosa following his injuries in New York, what does Tom Black recall when he enters Thatcher's Market?

8. What does the introductory poem to "When the Legends Die" summarize?

9. Why do Mary Redmond and Tom Black run opposed to each other?

10. How does Tom Black prepare for the winter on the first bench of Granite Peak?

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