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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 20 | Part 2, Chapter 21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long following his punishment does Tom Black Bull escape the school?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

2. George and Bessie Black Bull are compelled to work where for the white man?
(a) The sheep ranch.
(b) The steelmill.
(c) The sawmill.
(d) The cattle ranch.

3. While en route to rendezvous with her husband, Bessie Black Bull and her son bathe in a ritual cleansing while singing what?
(a) A song for rain.
(b) A song to the sunset.
(c) A song for clean souls.
(d) A song to the sun rising.

4. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?
(a) Believing he needs to learn the white man's ways.
(b) Believing the 'old ways' are dead.
(c) Believing he needs to teach his people.
(d) Believing the townsfolk will hunt his cub bear unless he does.

5. Why does Tom Black Bull believe it is foolish to be a farmer?
(a) Farming and gardening is women's work.
(b) One does not turn the earth into what it does not want to be.
(c) His parents' farming dried in a drought.
(d) One could pick berries and nuts that grew naturally.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Tom Black Bull assist with the sheep?

3. What does Tom Black Bull do when Benny Grayback locks him in a room?

4. Tom Black Bull is given a single room at whose suggestion?

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

(see the answer key)

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