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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 24 | Part 3, Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why has Tom Black Bull taken well to caring for the sheep?
(a) It is not as much work as horses.
(b) The goats wander too far.
(c) It is a part of his nature.
(d) The pigs are always groveling in mud.

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

3. What differs between horses that Tom Black Bull rode on the sagebrush range and those that he rides on the new spread?
(a) Indian ponies were smaller.
(b) Indian ponies were heftier.
(c) Indian horses were bigger.
(d) Essentially no difference.

4. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?
(a) Hunting buffalo.
(b) Farming corn.
(c) Keeping his spirit in tune with nature.
(d) Making pots from clay.

5. Tom Black Bull tells the Mexican ex-bronco rider that he feels powerless at this point in his life, except for when?
(a) When riding horses.
(b) When making money.
(c) When alone in the sagebrush.
(d) When alone in the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the introductory poem summarize?

3. In regards to Blue Elk being willing to sell his own grandmother, what is his reply?

4. The circle the stars make is juxtaposed to the squareness of what?

5. The Mexican ex-bronco rider that now cooks is correct when he says what?

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