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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Those who observe how Tom Black rides and lives between rides see that the ride is the only time he does what?
(a) Swears.
(b) Relaxes.
(c) Comes alive.
(d) Regresses.

2. What does Tom Black Bull's instructor die from?
(a) A bad heart, liver, and kidneys.
(b) A brain aneurysm.
(c) Being thrown from a horse.
(d) A gunshot wound.

3. 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) He is saddened, knowing that it is children who are affected.
(d) It does not bother him in the least.

4. Where does Tom Black still have to face his fear in person?
(a) The desert.
(b) The mountain.
(c) The corral.
(d) The arena.

5. In a local café in Pagosa, four men are staring at Tom Black in his fancy clothes and he feels what?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Self-confident.
(c) Proud of his status.
(d) Self-conscious.

6. One afternoon Tom Black picks grasses, weaves a tiny basket, then leaves it in a tree as a nest for what?
(a) A prairie chicken.
(b) A field mouse.
(c) A chipmunk.
(d) A prairie dog.

7. 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) Kill it.
(c) Chant to it.
(d) Share his spirits with it.

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

9. What happens during Tom Black's ride in the night rodeo at Madison Square Garden?
(a) The roan smashes into the gate.
(b) He rides the roan the full time limit.
(c) The roan bucks him off.
(d) The roan falls on him.

10. 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) Ride the big time alone, for keeps.
(b) Find safer, steadier work.
(c) Work the con circuit by himself.
(d) Return to his mountain alone.

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

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

13. As Tom Black Bull moves into the big time rodeo, riding as his own man, what is he bringing Into his next stage of life?
(a) His new fear of loss and injury.
(b) His new successful sense of achievement.
(c) His new calm, peaceful tranquility.
(d) His new, hard, vicious spirit.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What prescription does Tom Black's doctor offer, which allows for little else on his new job?

2. Where does Tom Black leave his clothes bag while he walks up the street?

3. What does Tom not realize takes place whenever he is 'riding for the crowd' and as a killer?

4. What is Tom Black trying to kill through his own violence and the killing, bronco riding legend he has become?

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

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