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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. Tom Black Bull is left with the horses when his instructor buys a pickup and trailer, then goes to do what?
(a) Sell the horses.
(b) Attempt to collect bets.
(c) Buy beer.
(d) Sell his ranch.

2. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. The day following his dream about Blue Elk, Tom Black bathes where?
(a) In the mid-morning, cold creek.
(b) In the early morning, icy creek.
(c) In the early evening, cool creek.
(d) In the mid-afternoon, warm creek.

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

5. 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) The morbid rodeo crowd.
(b) Harmony of nature, roundness of life.
(c) Nurses and doctors.
(d) His anger and violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to warmth, why does Bessie Black Bull give her son a red blanket?

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

3. In New York, Tom dreams of back-country rodeos, the San Juan ranch, his mother, and mountains, but all the dreams end how?

4. When Tom Black Bull lets some animals get ill eating green corn, he is put back in the barn for how long before he goes to the horses?

5. What is it that Tom Black finally comes to realize he must face after his being crushed under the horse in Madison Square Garden?

(see the answer key)

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