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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The spring after they are run out of Felice, where do Tom Black Bull and his teacher work?
(a) Eastern New Mexico and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(b) Southern Colorado.
(c) Northern Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle.
(d) Southwestern Kansas and the Oklahoma panhandle.

2. Blue Elk sees Bessie Black Bull leaving the store on her second trip and steals what from her?
(a) All but the blue coat for Tom.
(b) All but her clothing.
(c) All but the red coat for Tom.
(d) All but a small basket.

3. What is Blue Elk impressed to learn about Tom Black Bull?
(a) He brings the 'old way' out of Blue Elk by singing.
(b) He knows how to sing in the 'old ways' alone.
(c) He has lived alone in the 'old ways' for two years.
(d) He knows the 'old ways' have no end.

4. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?
(a) Believing he needs to learn the white man's ways.
(b) Believing the 'old ways' are dead.
(c) Believing the townsfolk will hunt his cub bear unless he does.
(d) Believing he needs to teach his people.

5. How does Tom Black Bull share part of his deer kill?
(a) With a bear.
(b) With Jim Thatcher.
(c) With the sheriff.
(d) With Blue Elk.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Tom Black Bull lets some animals get ill eating green corn, he is put back in the barn for how long before he goes to the horses?

2. What does the gold prospector do the morning after Bear's Brother spies him along the stream?

3. What does Tom Black Bull do when Benny Grayback locks him in a room?

4. What does Blue Elk arrange with the agent regarding Tom Black Bull and the bear cub?

5. Having begun to reevaluate his life, Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel and refuses to comply with orders to do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tom Black reminded of by Mary Redmond attempting to pressure her way into his convalescence?

2. What happens when Tom Black Bull arrives with his bear cub companion in town to trade basketry?

3. How is it that Tom Black Bull gets involved in Red Dillon's final hours and burial?

4. How does the Black Bull family face the opening crisis situation in the first chapter?

5. How does Red Dillon use Tom Black Bull to make money on his initial scam?

6. Why is it that Tom Black Bull gets by caring for sheep with Albert Left Hand?

7. How do Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull exercise their con at the Bernalillo rodeo?

8. How is Tom Black Bull introduced to his moneymaking skills in Chapter 21?

9. What is Tom Black's intent regarding rebuilding his muscles following his Madison Square Garden fall?

10. What happens when Tom Black Bull is locked in his room at the school and he begins to chant?

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