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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tom Black Bull is entered in the first rodeo in Aztec, what is he instructed to do?
(a) Win each ride.
(b) Ride in a betting scam.
(c) Ride without getting hurt.
(d) Ride hard, but honestly.

2. What does the bear cub that Tom Black Bull takes care of represent?
(a) Tom's 'old way' spirit.
(b) Tom's communion with his parents' spirits.
(c) Tom's communion with the wilderness.
(d) Tom's communion with nature.

3. In addition to warmth, why does Bessie Black Bull give her son a red blanket?
(a) Red is the color for protection.
(b) Red is the color for trust.
(c) Red is the color for honor.
(d) Red is the color for courage.

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

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

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

7. When Tom Black Bull escapes from the school, what happens?
(a) He returns to his mountain and finds his lodge burned down.
(b) He goes to his mountain and the song remains in his soul.
(c) He takes up residence in his lodge as though he never left.
(d) He encounters the jays and chipmunks that remain his friends.

8. Who does Tom Black Bull join with to become a bronco rider?
(a) Bill Edwards.
(b) Red Dillon.
(c) Ed Porter.
(d) Marty Redmond.

9. Upon returning to his mountain, what does Tom Black Bull learn?
(a) His spirit remains pure.
(b) He still remembers the songs of his spirit.
(c) He has lost much of his 'old ways' knowledge.
(d) His spirit is becoming polluted.

10. Twisted in spirit by first learning as a boy, then in young adulthood trying to kill memories and old influences, what happens to Tom?
(a) He builds his own false legends as he goes.
(b) He makes the trek without building any legends.
(c) He makes the transition integrating the legends.
(d) False legends arise, but he is able to remain focused.

11. Who is called to interpret for Tom Black Bull because he speaks only Ute?
(a) Charles Huckleberry.
(b) Albert Left Hand.
(c) Benny Grayback.
(d) Blue Elk.

12. Tom Black Bull is taken to his new dormitory room to get what?
(a) A Holy Bible.
(b) White man's clothes.
(c) White man's food.
(d) Pencils and paper.

13. Having begun to reevaluate his life, Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel and refuses to comply with orders to do what?
(a) Ride in the next rodeo.
(b) Return to his instructor's spread.
(c) Prepare for the next con.
(d) Take care of the horses.

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

15. How long following his punishment does Tom Black Bull escape the school?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 1 week.

Short Answer Questions

1. The wild bronco is a symbol of Tom Black Bull's what?

2. What does Blue Elk arrange with the agent regarding Tom Black Bull and the bear cub?

3. When his plowing fails, Tom Black Bull is next set to task as what?

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

5. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?

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