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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Tom Black feel later that day after he awakes from his dream?
(a) Landed on by a bronco, his last ride.
(b) Jolt of the bronco coming out of the chute.
(c) Slammed against the gate while on the bronco.
(d) Thrown from a bronco coming out of the chute.

3. Why does Mary Redmond not like cats?
(a) Cats claw furniture.
(b) Cats are too independent.
(c) Cats scratch too quickly.
(d) Cats are finicky eaters.

4. Tom Black was obsessed with killing his past, but why does he now see that he must kill that which he has become?
(a) To escape his past and embark on a new future.
(b) To get back to the wholeness that is his heritage.
(c) Rid himself of his bronco riding ways and embark on a new path.
(d) To get back where the 'old way' and a new one can blend.

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

6. Upon returning to the ranch to recover a second time, Tom Black Bull learns what about the Mexican ex-bronco rider?
(a) He decided to commit suicide by gunshot.
(b) He broke his neck falling from a horse.
(c) He drowned attempting a rescue in a flooded stream.
(d) He decided to die in his sleep.

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

8. Tom Black wants to start over again; however, according to the code of the rodeo, where does he have to start?
(a) Teaching bronco riding.
(b) Riding a bull.
(c) Working a ranch.
(d) In the arena.

9. The author, Hal Borland, symbolically compares Tom Black's multiple injuries and hospitalizations with what?
(a) His burning down the San Juan ranch.
(b) The image of his crippled and injured spirit.
(c) The demise of the Mexican ex-bronco rider.
(d) The death of his father in the avalanche.

10. In the final chapter, where does Tom build his new lodge?
(a) The first bench of Horse Mountain.
(b) The first bench of Granite Peak.
(c) The first bench of Bald Mountain.
(d) The first bench of Grizzly Mountain.

11. Until he heals more, Tom Black accepts a job doing what that will not be too hard on him?
(a) Shepherding.
(b) Leather cobbling.
(c) Store clerking, shelf stocking.
(d) Cattle herding.

12. What is Tom Black's painful trek back up the mountain, naked and completely vulnerable to nature, an act of?
(a) Death.
(b) Atonement.
(c) Fear.
(d) Newness.

13. By the last chapter, Tom Black's name has changed to what?
(a) Tom Grizzly Bear.
(b) Chief Bear's Brother.
(c) Chief Black Bull.
(d) Tom Black Bull.

14. In Tom Black's second dream while in the juniper on Horse Mountain, thoughts of what go through his mind?
(a) Loneliness in the absence of his father and mother.
(b) Feeling of the icy cold water he bathed in.
(c) Items he has smelled or tasted burnt.
(d) Situations of extreme physical pain.

15. Living on the mountain is healing his soul and Tom Black is slowly recalling his former self when he lived how?
(a) The 'Ute way'.
(b) The 'mountain way'.
(c) The 'old way'.
(d) The 'natural way'.

Short Answer Questions

1. What form of signaling does Albert Left Hand exercise with his dogs that Tom Black attempts again?

2. When does Tom Black's employer link up with him to collect the herd?

3. What does Tom Black Bull's instructor die from?

4. Now that he is about to leave the hospital, Tom Black knows at this phase that he will be alone, raw, and without the shield of what that he has had for so long?

5. Tom Black dreams about his mother dying, chanting her death song, which brings what to the foreground of his psyche?

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