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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 do Bessie and Tom Black Bull gather willow shoots and other plants for?
(a) Winter basketry.
(b) Lodge insulation.
(c) Lodge mats.
(d) Winter fires.

2. Why has Tom Black Bull taken well to caring for the sheep?
(a) It is not as much work as horses.
(b) The pigs are always groveling in mud.
(c) The goats wander too far.
(d) It is a part of his nature.

3. How is Tom Black Bull punished when he fights other boys?
(a) He is made to stay out in the cold.
(b) He is flogged.
(c) He is forced to stand in a corner.
(d) He is forced to make more baskets.

4. What is the name of the Mexican ex-bronco rider who now cooks at Tom Black Bull's new residence?
(a) Angelo.
(b) Diego.
(c) Francisco.
(d) Meo.

5. Why do Tom Black Bull and his teacher bother to make the four-day ride just for the rodeo at Bernalillo?
(a) The rodeo there pays more than at other places.
(b) Tom stands a better chance of winning, as the rodeo is very small.
(c) For the experience of riding Mexican horses.
(d) So they will not be recognized and can pull a con.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?

2. Blue Elk talks Tom Black Bull into doing what with the bear cub?

3. Why does Tom Black Bull believe it is foolish to be a farmer?

4. Twisted in spirit by first learning as a boy, then in young adulthood trying to kill memories and old influences, what happens to Tom?

5. What does Red Dillon represent?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Tom Black Bull manage as he rides the rodeo circuit the summer following Red Dillon's death?

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

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

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

8. How does Tom Black Bull adjust to life at the agency school?

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

10. In Chapter 28, what is it that the reader learns has changed for Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull upon going back to Colorado?

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