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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. When late March arrives, Tom Black Bull knows the time has come for what?
(a) The Bear Dance.
(b) The Bear Song.
(c) The Bear Mating.
(d) The Bear Growling.

2. What animals does Tom Black leave the remainder of his uneaten, initial breakfast pancakes for?
(a) Grouse, squirrels.
(b) Prairie dogs, chipmunks.
(c) Prairie chickens, prairie dogs.
(d) Chipmunks, birds.

3. Now that he is about to leave the hospital, Tom Black knows at this phase that he will be alone, raw, and without the shield of what that he has had for so long?
(a) His anger and violence.
(b) Nurses and doctors.
(c) The morbid rodeo crowd.
(d) Harmony of nature, roundness of life.

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

5. How is Tom Black Bull punished when he fights other boys?
(a) He is forced to stand in a corner.
(b) He is forced to make more baskets.
(c) He is flogged.
(d) He is made to stay out in the cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his night ride at the Madison Square Garden rodeo, what parts of Tom Black's body go numb with pain?

2. One afternoon Tom Black picks grasses, weaves a tiny basket, then leaves it in a tree as a nest for what?

3. If you include the one killed in Aztec, which is not in the records, Tom Black determines he has killed how many horses before his ride in Madison Square Garden?

4. What is Blue Elk impressed to learn about Tom Black Bull?

5. Tom Black faces a crossroads following his Madison Square Garden rodeo ride; one that starts where?

(see the answer key)

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