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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom Black faces various crossroads in his life, each time taking the path leading to what?
(a) A legend that Utes are natural bronco riders.
(b) His skillful riding talent displayed.
(c) His desire for injury, pain.
(d) His self-indulging ego, power.

2. What does Tom Black do in response to an animal near him in the meadow being killed by a wild animal?
(a) Pulls his leg chasing the wild animal.
(b) Chases the wild animal up the mountainside.
(c) Helps the dogs round the sheep in chaos.
(d) Shoots the wild animal that killed the lamb.

3. After his first summer on the big rodeo circuit, Tom Black Bull returns to the ranch to discover what on his first evening back?
(a) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his jacket pockets.
(b) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his trousers pockets.
(c) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his wallet.
(d) The Mexican ex-bronco rider rummaging his suitcase.

4. What switch is taking place in Tom Black's life as he dreams of his mother's death?
(a) Tom is becoming sad about his need to ride rodeo again.
(b) Tom is slipping back more into his past.
(c) Tom is concentrating increasingly about his future.
(d) Tom is worrying about his dying on the rodeo circuit.

5. What is Tom Black trying to kill through his own violence and the killing, bronco riding legend he has become?
(a) The brutality and vengeance that has grown up in him.
(b) Attitudes of the crowds coming only to watch violence.
(c) The white man's lifestyle he has adopted.
(d) Indian legends that made up his earlier life.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tom Black tell his new employer about his past?

2. Until he heals more, Tom Black accepts a job doing what that will not be too hard on him?

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

4. Tom sets out to kill a boyhood, ends up killing the man he has been for so long, and finds what?

5. When Tom Black rides in Madison Square Garden, the newspaper relates that he has killed how many horses?

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