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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How is George Black Bull killed?
2. Where do Bessie Black Bull and her son wait for two days to ensure that no one follows them en route to their rendezvous with her husband?
3. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?
4. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?
5. Tom Black Bull and his teacher are run out of Felice with the latter shirtless, so he leaves what on a clothesline they pass?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Tom Black Bull manage as he rides the rodeo circuit the summer following Red Dillon's death?
2. What is the bear cub that is shackled in the corral symbolic of?
3. What is Tom Black doing in preparation to ride rodeo again?
4. How will Tom Black work for Jim Woodward in the summer?
5. How does the Black Bull family face the opening crisis situation in the first chapter?
6. What is life like when Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull work the Oklahoma panhandle and eastern New Mexico in the spring, and Colorado the following autumn?
7. In Chapter 2, what sort of glimpse does the author provide of life on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in comparison to Indian life the 'old way'?
8. Why is the reservation school unsuccessful in teaching Tom Black Bull how to plow fields?
9. How is it that Tom Black Bull comes to get his nickname, 'Killer Tom Black' on the circuit?
10. What does Tom Black do when the bear rushes from the brush and kills the lamb?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Roundness of life is a significant theme in this story. It unfolds through Bessie Black Bull, who maintains the 'old ways' and instructs them to Tom. What is it the reader learns to look for with this theme? How does the concept of continuation within all life tie in with this 'roundness' theme? Detail the method Bessie uses to teach this intrinsic truth concerning nature.
Essay Topic 2
Early in the book the reader learns the Utes are quite resourceful, and they approach life in a very practical fashion. When the farming methods taught them by the white man fail due to drought, they revert to their 'old ways', which are clearly in concert with nature. Contrast the approach of the white man to life with the 'old ways' handed down to Tom Black Bull by his parents.
Essay Topic 3
There is a distinct contrast between the life Tom Black Bull knew on Bald Mountain and his life that unfolds juxtaposed on the rodeo circuit. Compare and contrast the two lifestyles. Why does Tom pursue the rodeo when he is more content with the 'old ways' on the mountain?
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