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

2. Who is it that tracks the few Utes who have left the reservation to their camp?
(a) Luther Spotted Dog.
(b) Frank No Deer.
(c) Albert Left Hand.
(d) Blue Elk.

3. What does Jim Thatcher tell Bessie Black Bull regarding Blue Elk following her encounter with the Indian women who initially tease her?
(a) He was partly responsible for settling the issue with Frank No Deer.
(b) He had nothing to do with settling the issue with Frank No Deer.
(c) He was responsible for stealing from Jim Thatcher's store.
(d) He was totally responsible for settling the issue with Frank No Deer.

4. In regards to Blue Elk being willing to sell his own grandmother, what is his reply?
(a) He never knew her.
(b) She teaches at a different reservation.
(c) She works in a town over the mountains.
(d) She is dead.

5. 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?
(a) The 'old ways' are driven from his life.
(b) His 'old ways are integrated with his new life.
(c) He absorbs the white man's ways, and forever forgets the 'old ways'.
(d) The white man's ways gradually fade the 'old ways' from memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens with George Black Bull's body?

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

3. George and Bessie Black Bull are compelled to work where for the white man?

4. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?

5. When late March arrives, Tom Black Bull knows the time has come for what?

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