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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?
(a) Making pots from clay.
(b) Keeping his spirit in tune with nature.
(c) Farming corn.
(d) Hunting buffalo.

2. Why do Tom Black Bull and his teacher bother to make the four-day ride just for the rodeo at Bernalillo?
(a) So they will not be recognized and can pull a con.
(b) Tom stands a better chance of winning, as the rodeo is very small.
(c) The rodeo there pays more than at other places.
(d) For the experience of riding Mexican horses.

3. Who has George Black Bull killed?
(a) Frank Live Deer.
(b) Frank No Deer.
(c) Frank Rainwater.
(d) Frank Spotted Dog.

4. What is the powerful, violent force directing Tom Black Bull's life while he is in training on the San Juan ranch?
(a) His instructor.
(b) The Mexican ex-bronco rider.
(c) The horses.
(d) The 'old way'.

5. Blue Elk knows that life based on the 'old ways' contrasts starkly with how he lives and is what?
(a) Comparable to his lifestyle.
(b) Inferior to his lifestyle.
(c) Superior to his lifestyle.
(d) Identical to his lifestyle.

6. What is Blue Elk impressed to learn about Tom Black Bull?
(a) He knows how to sing in the 'old ways' alone.
(b) He knows the 'old ways' have no end.
(c) He brings the 'old way' out of Blue Elk by singing.
(d) He has lived alone in the 'old ways' for two years.

7. Tom Black Bull tells Benny Grayback that he will agree to acclimate under what condition?
(a) If he can retrieve items from his lodge.
(b) If they will let his brother, Bear, free.
(c) If he can visit his parents' graves.
(d) If he can eat Indian meals.

8. Tom Black Bull and his teacher are run out of Felice with the latter shirtless, so he leaves what on a clothesline they pass?
(a) A $5 bill in exchange for a shirt he takes.
(b) A $2 bill in exchange for a shirt he takes.
(c) A $1 bill in exchange for a shirt he takes.
(d) A $10 bill in exchange for a shirt he takes.

9. What is the name of the Mexican ex-bronco rider who now cooks at Tom Black Bull's new residence?
(a) Diego.
(b) Angelo.
(c) Meo.
(d) Francisco.

10. How is Tom Black Bull punished when he fights other boys?
(a) He is forced to make more baskets.
(b) He is forced to stand in a corner.
(c) He is made to stay out in the cold.
(d) He is flogged.

11. When Tom Black Bull lets some animals get ill eating green corn, he is put back in the barn for how long before he goes to the horses?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

12. 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?
(a) The foot of Grizzly Mountain.
(b) The foot of Horse Mountain.
(c) The foot of Bald Mountain.
(d) The foot of Granite Peak.

13. The Mexican ex-bronco rider that now cooks is correct when he says what?
(a) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, Tom wins, but the horse does not win.
(b) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, the horse wins, but Tom does not win.
(c) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, but the horse and Tom do not win.
(d) Tom Black Bull's instructor wins, the horse wins, and Tom wins.

14. What is George Bull's demeanor when he arrives at the house following the fight?
(a) Worried and in fear.
(b) Frantic and upset.
(c) Calm and controlled.
(d) Nervous, but in control.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The circle the stars make is juxtaposed to the squareness of what?

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

3. What happens during one rodeo ride in Texas requiring hospitalization for Tom Black Bull?

4. Who recognizes that Tom Black Bull and his pet bear are no threat when they arrive in town one July, and manages to calm the townsfolk?

5. Tom Black Bull is given a single room at whose suggestion?

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