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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Tom Black head back to after stocking up on supplies?
(a) Granite Peak.
(b) Grizzly Mountain.
(c) Bald Mountain.
(d) Horse Mountain.

3. When Tom Black Bull tells his instructor that he will not ride the circuit with him anymore, he advises he will do what instead?
(a) Work the con circuit by himself.
(b) Find safer, steadier work.
(c) Return to his mountain alone.
(d) Ride the big time alone, for keeps.

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

5. What do the beans being choked by the weeds represent?
(a) The life being choked from horses on the rodeo circuit.
(b) Tom Black Bull being nearly choked from life on the ranch.
(c) Tom Black Bull being nearly choked from the white man's rodeo circuit.
(d) The Mexican ex-bronco rider's life being choked from his farming life.

6. Tom Black had gotten rid of all memory smells but the bear, and he plans to track it down and do what if it is a grizzly?
(a) Trap it.
(b) Share his spirits with it.
(c) Chant to it.
(d) Kill it.

7. What prescription does Tom Black's doctor offer, which allows for little else on his new job?
(a) Eat, sleep, walk.
(b) Eat, think, sleep.
(c) Eat, sleep, relax.
(d) Eat, sleep, ride quiet horses.

8. What is it that Tom Black finally comes to realize he must face after his being crushed under the horse in Madison Square Garden?
(a) His not settling down.
(b) His killing a horse.
(c) His punctured lung.
(d) His fear.

9. What is Tom Black's reaction when children in the park recognize him and point him out as a killer?
(a) He ignores them outwardly, but inside it tears him apart.
(b) He points back at them, says they are next.
(c) It does not bother him in the least.
(d) He is saddened, knowing that it is children who are affected.

10. How does Tom Black describe broncos to Mary Redmond?
(a) As merely untamed.
(b) As mountain bears.
(c) As mean outlaws.
(d) As troubled spirits.

11. In Tom Black's contact with Mary Redmond, he recalls the others who tried to make him do things their way. Who are they?
(a) Blue Elk, Rowena Ellis, Benny Grayback, Red Dillon.
(b) Meo, Rowena Ellis, Frank No Deer, George Black Bull.
(c) Blue Elk, Frank No Deer, Jim Thatcher, Red Dillon.
(d) Bessie Black Bull, Rowena Ellis, Benny Grayback, Meo.

12. Riding with the pain of his injuries, what does Tom turn to?
(a) Meditation.
(b) 'Old ways'.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Alcohol.

13. Starved, what does Tom Bull begin cooking for his next meal following breakfast on his initial day at work?
(a) Tortillas.
(b) Stew.
(c) Beef steak.
(d) Venison roast.

14. After several more seasons, legends about Tom Black Bull start to crop up as well as what new nickname?
(a) Ruthless Tom Killer.
(b) Killer Tom Black.
(c) Tom Black Vengeance.
(d) Hostile Tom Devil.

15. When Tom Black rides in Madison Square Garden, the newspaper relates that he has killed how many horses?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon hearing of the grizzly bear that Tom Black thinks he saw, his employer responds that it is more likely what type?

2. Tom Black Bull spends much time thinking as he recovers, then decides to what?

3. What is it that Mary Redmond wants with Tom Black?

4. Tom Black was obsessed with killing his past, but why does he now see that he must kill that which he has become?

5. Where does Tom Black ride his gentle horse?

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