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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. The spring after they are run out of Felice, where do Tom Black Bull and his teacher work?
(a) Southwestern Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(b) Eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(c) Southern Colorado.
(d) Northern Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle.

2. The smell of burnt coffee in New York first reminds Tom Black of when he burned the San Juan barn, and then of what?
(a) Everything about living on the San Juan ranch.
(b) Agency school life, his first time eating white man's food.
(c) Reservation life as a young child, his mother's breakfasts.
(d) Burnt coffee in all the cheap cafes he ate at.

3. How is George Black Bull killed?
(a) Shot by the sheriff.
(b) In an avalanche.
(c) He drowns.
(d) Strangled by Blue Elk.

4. Blue Elk talks Tom Black Bull into doing what with the bear cub?
(a) Chaining him in a corral.
(b) Selling him to Jim Thatcher.
(c) Releasing him in the mountain.
(d) Selling him to Blue Elk.

5. Tom Black Bull's ego and sense of adventure are fed by what as he assesses himself west of Corpus Christi?
(a) Sleeping in hotels instead of a dormitory room.
(b) The exhilaration and bravado of the rodeo circuit.
(c) Eating in cafes instead of the Mexican ex-bronco rider's cooking.
(d) Winning big bets on the rodeo circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Black Bull spends much time thinking as he recovers, then decides to what?

2. What is Tom Black's reaction when children in the park recognize him and point him out as a killer?

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

4. What does Jim Thatcher tell Bessie Black Bull regarding Blue Elk following her encounter with the Indian women who initially tease her?

5. When late March arrives, Tom Black Bull knows the time has come for what?

(see the answer key)

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