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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 12 | Part 2, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the first frost arrives, Bessie examines the pine nuts, acorns, and fish they have and decides what?
(a) They needed to find additional food.
(b) The white man's supplies were better.
(c) This is the way it should be.
(d) It was better with the corn grown in the fields.

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

3. What happens with George Black Bull's body?
(a) It is never found.
(b) The sheriff has it buried in the commoner's cemetery.
(c) Animals eat it.
(d) Bessie and Tom bury it in the 'old way'.

4. Who recognizes that Tom Black Bull and his pet bear are no threat when they arrive in town one July, and manages to calm the townsfolk?
(a) The preacher.
(b) Jim Thatcher.
(c) Blue Elk.
(d) Benny Grayback.

5. After two years, George and Bessie Black Bull are in debt for how much to the white man?
(a) $42.
(b) $52.
(c) $62.
(d) $32.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bessie's response to the situation her man has gotten into?

2. How is George Black Bull killed?

3. In what way is the gold prospector injured?

4. The main character, a Ute boy, first learns the Indian legends, keeps them alive, and then lives with white men. What happens to him, ultimately?

5. Who is called to interpret for Tom Black Bull because he speaks only Ute?

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