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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 is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
(a) Raising hogs.
(b) Raising chickens and turkeys.
(c) Hunting and fishing.
(d) Farming corn.

2. The Mexican ex-bronco rider knows that by Tom Black Bull giving in to his violence, he will become what?
(a) Less comfortable on horses.
(b) More like what he hates.
(c) Nothing like what he wants.
(d) More like what he wants.

3. What does the gold prospector do the morning after Bear's Brother spies him along the stream?
(a) He shoots one of the bear cubs.
(b) He traps one of the cubs.
(c) He shoots the she-bear and traps a cub.
(d) He shoots the she-bear and a cub.

4. What happens with George Black Bull's body?
(a) Bessie and Tom bury it in the 'old way'.
(b) Animals eat it.
(c) The sheriff has it buried in the commoner's cemetery.
(d) It is never found.

5. Blue Elk talks Tom Black Bull into doing what with the bear cub?
(a) Releasing him in the mountain.
(b) Chaining him in a corral.
(c) Selling him to Jim Thatcher.
(d) Selling him to Blue Elk.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In what way is the gold prospector injured?

4. What is Blue Elk impressed to learn about Tom Black Bull?

5. When Tom Black Bull grabs the saddle to steady himself on one bronco, he is chewed out for not riding what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the reservation school unsuccessful in teaching Tom Black Bull how to plow fields?

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

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

4. What does Tom Black do when the bear rushes from the brush and kills the lamb?

5. What are some of his thoughts related to the bear during Tom Black's first night spent back at the old sheep camp?

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

7. What happens on the ride home when Red Dillon awakens from his stupor and Tom Black Dillon informs him that he took his money?

8. What causes Tom Black to change his plans again when Woodward collects his sheep for the winter?

9. How does Meo, the Mexican ex-bronco twister, take Tom Black Bull under his belt at Red Dillon's spread?

10. What causes Tom Black's nightmares to cease?

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