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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Black faces various crossroads in his life, each time taking the path leading to what?
(a) A legend that Utes are natural bronco riders.
(b) His desire for injury, pain.
(c) His self-indulging ego, power.
(d) His skillful riding talent displayed.

2. 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) Share his spirits with it.
(b) Trap it.
(c) Kill it.
(d) Chant to it.

3. Tom sets out to kill a boyhood, ends up killing the man he has been for so long, and finds what?
(a) His childhood friends.
(b) His parents.
(c) Himself.
(d) Those in Pagosa.

4. If you include the one killed in Aztec, which is not in the records, Tom Black determines he has killed how many horses before his ride in Madison Square Garden?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 9.

5. How does Tom Black Bull feel about his first ride in the big time?
(a) Satisfied, it was better than average.
(b) Annoyed, it was less than average.
(c) Pleased, it far exceeded average.
(d) Displeased, it was only average.

6. How does Tom Black get back to Pagosa?
(a) By hitchhiking.
(b) By train.
(c) By bus.
(d) By plane.

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

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

9. Where does Tom Black leave his clothes bag while he walks up the street?
(a) With the bus station clerk.
(b) With the waitress.
(c) With the postal clerk.
(d) With the train station clerk.

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

11. After his first summer on the big rodeo circuit, Tom Black Bull returns to the ranch to discover what on his first evening back?
(a) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his wallet.
(b) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his trousers pockets.
(c) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his jacket pockets.
(d) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his suitcase.

12. Who initially attempts to help Tom Black deal with his dreams in New York?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A preacher.
(c) An Indian rodeo hand.
(d) A doctor.

13. 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 punctured lung.
(b) His not settling down.
(c) His killing a horse.
(d) His fear.

14. What does Tom not realize takes place whenever he is 'riding for the crowd' and as a killer?
(a) He can never stop drugs for pain.
(b) He is riding the white man's way.
(c) He only wins when he kills.
(d) He always loses.

15. Walking up the street, Tom Black recognizes what Indian across the road that now looks like a skid row character?
(a) Charley Huckleberry, a former council member.
(b) Benny Grayback, the old head man.
(c) Blue Elk, who used to trick him.
(d) Luther Spotted Dog, his former roommate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One night, Tom Black dreams that Blue Elk is speaking to him as though he is still a boy, stating the 'old ways' are gone and Tom must learn to read, write, and what else?

3. Until he heals more, Tom Black accepts a job doing what that will not be too hard on him?

4. 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?

5. When Tom Black initiates his physical therapy with Mary Redmond, he is getting around how?

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