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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. Tom Black Bull spends much time thinking as he recovers, then decides to what?
(a) Quit rodeo riding and return to the mountain.
(b) Buy the ranch and give up rodeo riding.
(c) Burn down the ranch cabin and barn.
(d) Buy the ranch and teach Utes to ride broncos.

2. In Tom Black's first dream the bear represents his 'old ways' spirit, while the bronco represents what?
(a) His excitement on the rough ride into the white man's world.
(b) His anxiousness in leaving the 'old ways', eagerness to find new ones.
(c) His transition into the white man's world.
(d) His fears over who he is, and is trying to become.

3. What do George and Bessie Black Bull opt for when the white man's method of support fails?
(a) Smoking sheep and fish they do not eat.
(b) Smoking cattle and fish they do not eat.
(c) Smoking venison and fish they do not eat.
(d) Smoking coyotes and fish they do not eat.

4. Symbolically, Tom Black's going back to the mountain represents that he has to do what?
(a) Reunite his two spirits.
(b) Expose his two spirits.
(c) Release his two spirits.
(d) Identify his two spirits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After several more seasons, legends about Tom Black Bull start to crop up as well as what new nickname?

2. In a local café in Pagosa, four men are staring at Tom Black in his fancy clothes and he feels what?

3. What is Tom Black trying to kill through his own violence and the killing, bronco riding legend he has become?

4. What is Blue Elk impressed to learn about Tom Black Bull?

5. When Tom Black Bull grabs the saddle to steady himself on one bronco, he is chewed out for not riding what?

(see the answer key)

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