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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the first frost arrives, Bessie examines the pine nuts, acorns, and fish they have and decides what?
(a) They needed to find additional food.
(b) This is the way it should be.
(c) The white man's supplies were better.
(d) It was better with the corn grown in the fields.

2. Tom Black finds where the bear has cached the remains of a kill it has made, so he does what?
(a) Continues to track the bear now that he is closing in.
(b) Picks a spot among nearby boulders, waits for the bear to return.
(c) Decides to give up his hunt, returns to break his camp down.
(d) Picks a spot in a nearby tree, waits for the bear to return.

3. Upon returning to the school, to what task is Tom Black Bull assigned at the Cobbler's Shop?
(a) Making leashes and harnesses.
(b) Making belts and suspenders.
(c) Making shoes and belts.
(d) Making quirts and bridles.

4. What does Tom Black tell his new employer about his past?
(a) Only about his riding, nothing about the crowds or his fear.
(b) Nothing about his rodeo work.
(c) Everything about his rodeo work.
(d) Sketchy details about his rodeo work.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tom Black's reaction when children in the park recognize him and point him out as a killer?

2. What does the bear cub that Tom Black Bull takes care of represent?

3. Where do Bessie Black Bull and her son wait for two days to ensure that no one follows them en route to their rendezvous with her husband?

4. A bear rushes into the meadow from the brush and kills what, as Tom Black muses over his rodeo plans one day?

5. When he makes his way around the mountain the first time in his search for the bear, the odds are in favor of it being what type?

(see the answer key)

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