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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. 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 clean souls.
(b) A song for rain.
(c) A song to the sunset.
(d) A song to the sun rising.

2. How is George Black Bull killed?
(a) In an avalanche.
(b) He drowns.
(c) Strangled by Blue Elk.
(d) Shot by the sheriff.

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 introductory poem summarize?
(a) The pathos of the demise of the American Indian way.
(b) The demise of some, but not all, American Indian tribes.
(c) The tragedy of the demise of American Indian legends.
(d) The tragedy of the demise of the American Wild West.

5. The Mexican ex-bronco rider knows that by Tom Black Bull giving in to his violence, he will become what?
(a) Less comfortable on horses.
(b) More like what he wants.
(c) More like what he hates.
(d) Nothing like what he wants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Blue Elk arrange with the agent regarding Tom Black Bull and the bear cub?

2. 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?

3. What sort of lodge does George Black Bull build when snow begins to show in the mountains?

4. The wild bronco is a symbol of Tom Black Bull's what?

5. In addition to warmth, why does Bessie Black Bull give her son a red blanket?

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