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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. What does Tom Black Bull do to relieve his anger when Red Dillon enters him into rodeo bronco riding competitions to cheat?
(a) Vents it in every legal way he can.
(b) Vents it in every illegal way he can.
(c) Quits riding altogether.
(d) Vents it in any way he can.

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

3. What do George and Bessie Black Bull opt for when the white man's method of support fails?
(a) Smoking coyotes and fish they do not eat.
(b) Smoking cattle and fish they do not eat.
(c) Smoking venison and fish they do not eat.
(d) Smoking sheep and fish they do not eat.

4. 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 the red coat for Tom.
(c) All but a small basket.
(d) All but her clothing.

5. Where do Bessie Black Bull and her son wait for two days to ensure that no one follows them en route to their rendezvous with her husband?
(a) The foot of Horse Mountain.
(b) The foot of Bald Mountain.
(c) The foot of Grizzly Mountain.
(d) The foot of Granite Peak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Blue Elk tracks Bear's Brother to his mountain lodge, and upon looking around is reminded of whom?

2. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?

3. Who is it that tracks the few Utes who have left the reservation to their camp?

4. Upon returning to his mountain, what does Tom Black Bull learn?

5. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires during Tom Black Bull's discussion with the doctor following Meo's passing?

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

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

4. Bessie Black Bull is concerned in reference to what Jim Thatcher told her at the store about them no longer searching for George. What does she do?

5. What transpires the day after Tom Black Bull spies the gold prospector by the stream?

6. Why do Mary Redmond and Tom Black run opposed to each other?

7. What happens to Tom Black the next day after he has a dream in which Blue Elk becomes Red Dillon laughing at him?

8. How does Tom come to be called Bear's Brother?

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

10. How does the theme of the roundness of all life unfold through Bessie Black Bull?

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