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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. 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?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 3 weeks.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

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

3. What sort of lodge does George Black Bull build when snow begins to show in the mountains?
(a) Peaked like the mountain caps.
(b) In a cave behind brush and stones.
(c) A conical teepee made of animal skins.
(d) Round like the sun and path of the stars.

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) Blue Elk.
(b) The preacher.
(c) Jim Thatcher.
(d) Benny Grayback.

5. Tom Black Bull is given a single room at whose suggestion?
(a) Dolly Beaverfoot.
(b) Charley Huckleberry.
(c) Rowena Ellis.
(d) Benny Grayback.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Tom Black Bull share a room with in the dormitory?

2. When Tom Black Bull realizes he has been betrayed by Blue Elk, what does he fight for?

3. 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?

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

5. After two years, George and Bessie Black Bull are in debt for how much to the white man?

(see the answer key)

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