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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. 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?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 weeks.

2. In addition to assisting ewes and lambs through the difficulty of birth, Tom Black Bull helps protect against what?
(a) Bears.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Rattlesnakes.
(d) Racoons.

3. Tom Black Bull's ego and sense of adventure are fed by what as he assesses himself west of Corpus Christi?
(a) The exhilaration and bravado of the rodeo circuit.
(b) Sleeping in hotels instead of a dormitory room.
(c) Eating in cafes instead of the Mexican ex-bronco rider's cooking.
(d) Winning big bets on the rodeo circuit.

4. Who is it that tracks the few Utes who have left the reservation to their camp?
(a) Frank No Deer.
(b) Luther Spotted Dog.
(c) Albert Left Hand.
(d) Blue Elk.

5. Tom Black Bull tells the Mexican ex-bronco rider that he feels powerless at this point in his life, except for when?
(a) When making money.
(b) When riding horses.
(c) When alone in the sagebrush.
(d) When alone in the mountains.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has George Black Bull killed?

2. What does Tom Black Bull do to relieve his anger when Red Dillon enters him into rodeo bronco riding competitions to cheat?

3. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?

4. Why has Tom Black Bull taken well to caring for the sheep?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What transpires during Tom Black's night ride at Madison Square Garden?

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

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

5. How is it that Tom Black Bull comes to get his nickname, 'Killer Tom Black' on the circuit?

6. What happens when Jim Woodward offers Tom Black a winter job a second time?

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

8. In Chapter 2, what sort of glimpse does the author provide of life on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in comparison to Indian life the 'old way'?

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

10. How is the bear cub freed, and how is Tom Black Bull returned to the agency school?

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