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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) His new calm, peaceful tranquility.
(b) His new, hard, vicious spirit.
(c) His new successful sense of achievement.
(d) His new fear of loss and injury.

2. What does Mary Redmond tell Tom Black she once cried all night over?
(a) Losing a goldfish she wanted.
(b) Losing a dog she wanted.
(c) Losing a canary she wanted.
(d) Losing a rabbit she wanted.

3. What do the beans being choked by the weeds represent?
(a) Tom Black Bull being nearly choked from the white man's rodeo circuit.
(b) Tom Black Bull being nearly choked from life on the ranch.
(c) The life being choked from horses on the rodeo circuit.
(d) The Mexican ex-bronco rider's life being choked from his farming life.

4. What switch is taking place in Tom Black's life as he dreams of his mother's death?
(a) Tom is becoming sad about his need to ride rodeo again.
(b) Tom is concentrating increasingly about his future.
(c) Tom is worrying about his dying on the rodeo circuit.
(d) Tom is slipping back more into his past.

5. Tom Black was obsessed with killing his past, but why does he now see that he must kill that which he has become?
(a) To get back where the 'old way' and a new one can blend.
(b) To escape his past and embark on a new future.
(c) To get back to the wholeness that is his heritage.
(d) Rid himself of his bronco riding ways and embark on a new path.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Black ends his journey in Part 4, Chapter 48, making a full circle from oneness with nature to hell and violence, or where?

2. His second July riding big rodeos, Tom Black Bull's wild horse smashes into the gate and causes what injuries?

3. What is it that Mary Redmond wants with Tom Black?

4. Talking with his employer about the bear he saw makes Tom Black do what?

5. What does Tom not realize takes place whenever he is 'riding for the crowd' and as a killer?

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