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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. Walking up the street, Tom Black recognizes what Indian across the road that now looks like a skid row character?
(a) Charley Huckleberry, a former council member.
(b) Luther Spotted Dog, his former roommate.
(c) Blue Elk, who used to trick him.
(d) Benny Grayback, the old head man.

2. The day following his dream about Blue Elk, Tom Black bathes where?
(a) In the early morning, icy creek.
(b) In the early evening, cool creek.
(c) In the mid-afternoon, warm creek.
(d) In the mid-morning, cold creek.

3. Two white men exit a saloon and offer Tom Black Bull how much to ride 'his horse' at the end of town?
(a) A dime.
(b) Two dollars.
(c) Fifty cents.
(d) A quarter.

4. What happens during one rodeo ride in Texas requiring hospitalization for Tom Black Bull?
(a) He breaks his leg.
(b) He breaks his hip.
(c) He breaks his arm.
(d) He breaks his collarbone.

5. In New York, Tom dreams of back-country rodeos, the San Juan ranch, his mother, and mountains, but all the dreams end how?
(a) He and his mother fleeing Pagosa to meet his father.
(b) Him trapped saddled to a bronco forever falling.
(c) As a youth bathing in an icy brook, chanting to a new day.
(d) His first ride on a bronco in a small rodeo.

Short Answer Questions

1. The last time Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel to find his instructor asleep and drunk again, he does what?

2. What is Tom Black's initial reaction to Mary Redmond's suggestions regarding a rest home?

3. What does Tom Black tell his new employer about his past?

4. What differs between horses that Tom Black Bull rode on the sagebrush range and those that he rides on the new spread?

5. What form of exercise does Tom Black use to strengthen his legs?

(see the answer key)

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