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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Black obtains the rodeo schedule, intends to make a comeback, and plans to use his summer pay to buy what?
(a) A trailer.
(b) A saddle.
(c) Hotel rooms and food.
(d) A car.

2. What is Tom Black's initial reaction to Mary Redmond's suggestions regarding a rest home?
(a) He reluctantly accepts her invitations.
(b) He orders her to leave him alone.
(c) He quickly falls in line with her offers.
(d) He accepts to quiet her, but plans to leave without her knowing.

3. Those who observe how Tom Black rides and lives between rides see that the ride is the only time he does what?
(a) Comes alive.
(b) Regresses.
(c) Swears.
(d) Relaxes.

4. In Tom Black's second dream while in the juniper on Horse Mountain, thoughts of what go through his mind?
(a) Situations of extreme physical pain.
(b) Loneliness in the absence of his father and mother.
(c) Items he has smelled or tasted burnt.
(d) Feeling of the icy cold water he bathed in.

5. Tom Black widens his hunt, and while looking for dry wood at one point, comes upon what and makes his kill?
(a) A grizzly bear.
(b) A cinnamon bear.
(c) A doe.
(d) A buck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens during Tom Black's ride in the night rodeo at Madison Square Garden?

2. When he reaches the top of the mountain, Tom Black begins to dream, and these dreams summarize his life's battle to do what?

3. If you include the one killed in Aztec, which is not in the records, Tom Black determines he has killed how many horses before his ride in Madison Square Garden?

4. Tom Black pushes himself beyond what is approved for his rehabilitation, causing Mary Redmond to be what?

5. Now that he is about to leave the hospital, Tom Black knows at this phase that he will be alone, raw, and without the shield of what that he has had for so long?

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