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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tom Black tell his new employer about his past?
(a) Nothing about his rodeo work.
(b) Sketchy details about his rodeo work.
(c) Only about his riding, nothing about the crowds or his fear.
(d) Everything about his rodeo work.

2. In regards to Blue Elk being willing to sell his own grandmother, what is his reply?
(a) She works in a town over the mountains.
(b) She teaches at a different reservation.
(c) He never knew her.
(d) She is dead.

3. In addition to warmth, why does Bessie Black Bull give her son a red blanket?
(a) Red is the color for honor.
(b) Red is the color for trust.
(c) Red is the color for courage.
(d) Red is the color for protection.

4. After Tom Black Bull escapes the school, what old Indian tracker is sent with Benny Grayback to find him?
(a) Raven.
(b) Fish.
(c) Eagle Eye.
(d) Night Owl.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of signaling does Albert Left Hand exercise with his dogs that Tom Black attempts again?

2. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?

3. Tom Black wants to start over again; however, according to the code of the rodeo, where does he have to start?

4. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?

5. What does Frank No Deer buy with the $15 he steals?

(see the answer key)

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