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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapter 38 | Part 3, Chapter 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During his night ride at the Madison Square Garden rodeo, what parts of Tom Black's body go numb with pain?
(a) Left knee and ankle.
(b) Right arm and elbow.
(c) Right knee and ankle.
(d) Left arm and elbow.

2. Tom Black faces various crossroads in his life, each time taking the path leading to what?
(a) His self-indulging ego, power.
(b) His desire for injury, pain.
(c) His skillful riding talent displayed.
(d) A legend that Utes are natural bronco riders.

3. What does Tom Black Bull do to relieve his anger when Red Dillon enters him into rodeo bronco riding competitions to cheat?
(a) Vents it in every illegal way he can.
(b) Quits riding altogether.
(c) Vents it in every legal way he can.
(d) Vents it in any way he can.

4. Blue Elk talks Tom Black Bull into doing what with the bear cub?
(a) Chaining him in a corral.
(b) Selling him to Jim Thatcher.
(c) Selling him to Blue Elk.
(d) Releasing him in the mountain.

5. The spring after they are run out of Felice, where do Tom Black Bull and his teacher work?
(a) Southwestern Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(b) Northern Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(c) Eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(d) Southern Colorado.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way is the gold prospector injured?

2. After his first summer on the big rodeo circuit, Tom Black Bull returns to the ranch to discover what on his first evening back?

3. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?

4. Tom Black Bull tells the Mexican ex-bronco rider that he feels powerless at this point in his life, except for when?

5. The smell of burnt coffee in New York first reminds Tom Black of when he burned the San Juan barn, and then of what?

(see the answer key)

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