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

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

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

4. What does the gold prospector do the morning after Bear's Brother spies him along the stream?
(a) He shoots one of the bear cubs.
(b) He shoots the she-bear and a cub.
(c) He traps one of the cubs.
(d) He shoots the she-bear and traps a cub.

5. What does the bear cub that Tom Black Bull takes care of represent?
(a) Tom's communion with his parents' spirits.
(b) Tom's communion with nature.
(c) Tom's 'old way' spirit.
(d) Tom's communion with the wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is George Black Bull killed?

2. When Bessie Black Bull goes back to town a third time, what does she trade with Indian women in exchange for information about Blue Elk?

3. When his plowing fails, Tom Black Bull is next set to task as what?

4. What is it that Tom Black Bull admires for sale in a store window when he arrives in Bayfield with Albert Left Hand?

5. After Tom Black Bull escapes the school, what old Indian tracker is sent with Benny Grayback to find him?

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