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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What form of exercise does Tom Black use to strengthen his legs?
(a) Jumping rope.
(b) Mountain hiking.
(c) Walking.
(d) Jogging.

2. Tom Black Bull spends much time thinking as he recovers, then decides to what?
(a) Buy the ranch and give up rodeo riding.
(b) Buy the ranch and teach Utes to ride broncos.
(c) Quit rodeo riding and return to the mountain.
(d) Burn down the ranch cabin and barn.

3. Where does Tom Black ride his gentle horse?
(a) Scouting the brush between Bald Mountain, Granite Peak.
(b) Scouting meadows between Bald Mountain, Granite Peak.
(c) Scouting aspens between Bald Mountain, Granite Peak.
(d) Scouting the desert sands between Bald Mountain, Granite Peak.

4. What is it that Mary Redmond wants with Tom Black?
(a) To have control over him.
(b) To provide assistance to him.
(c) To share pride with him.
(d) To offer encouragement with him.

5. When does Tom Black's employer link up with him to collect the herd?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

6. Tom will live awhile in the 'old ways', then go to town and the Indian school to see what is happening, but will not what?
(a) Go back to the arena.
(b) Seek out Jim Thatcher.
(c) Find out what became of Blue Elk.
(d) Hunt game any further, only fish.

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

8. When he makes his way around the mountain the first time in his search for the bear, the odds are in favor of it being what type?
(a) Large cinnamon, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.
(b) The grizzly cub he knew as a child, not a large cinnamon.
(c) Large black, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.
(d) Large mountain bear, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.

9. Tom Black finds where the bear has cached the remains of a kill it has made, so he does what?
(a) Decides to give up his hunt, returns to break his camp down.
(b) Picks a spot in a nearby tree, waits for the bear to return.
(c) Continues to track the bear now that he is closing in.
(d) Picks a spot among nearby boulders, waits for the bear to return.

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

11. Tom Black ends his journey in Part 4, Chapter 48, making a full circle from oneness with nature to hell and violence, or where?
(a) Life to death and back.
(b) Roundness into nature and back.
(c) Opposition into harmony and back.
(d) New to old and back.

12. 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) Bessie Black Bull, Rowena Ellis, Benny Grayback, Meo.
(b) Blue Elk, Rowena Ellis, Benny Grayback, Red Dillon.
(c) Meo, Rowena Ellis, Frank No Deer, George Black Bull.
(d) Blue Elk, Frank No Deer, Jim Thatcher, Red Dillon.

13. Tom Black obtains the rodeo schedule, intends to make a comeback, and plans to use his summer pay to buy what?
(a) A car.
(b) Hotel rooms and food.
(c) A trailer.
(d) A saddle.

14. His second July riding big rodeos, Tom Black Bull's wild horse smashes into the gate and causes what injuries?
(a) Pierces the horse's chest, breaks Tom's arm and leg.
(b) Pierces the horse's chest, breaks Tom's leg and ribs.
(c) Breaks the horse's neck and Tom's arm.
(d) Pierces the horse's chest, breaks Tom's arm and ribs.

15. 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?
(a) His anger and violence.
(b) The morbid rodeo crowd.
(c) Harmony of nature, roundness of life.
(d) Nurses and doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. In New York, Tom dreams of back-country rodeos, the San Juan ranch, his mother, and mountains, but all the dreams end how?

2. Tom Black faces various crossroads in his life, each time taking the path leading to what?

3. How does Tom Black Bull care for his instructor's body?

4. In a local café in Pagosa, four men are staring at Tom Black in his fancy clothes and he feels what?

5. When the time comes where Tom Black is looking for rehabilitation homes, what is Mary Redmond trying to do?

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