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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Tom Black Bull escapes from the school, what happens?
2. The last time Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel to find his instructor asleep and drunk again, he does what?
3. The other students tease Tom Black Bull about his basket weaving skill and call him what?
4. What does the introductory poem summarize?
5. Why does Tom Black Bull believe it is foolish to be a farmer?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the legend about Tom Black being a first cousin of the Devil who got into an argument with him?
2. How does Tom Black prepare for the winter on the first bench of Granite Peak?
3. How is the bear cub freed, and how is Tom Black Bull returned to the agency school?
4. Why do Mary Redmond and Tom Black run opposed to each other?
5. What is the bear cub that is shackled in the corral symbolic of?
6. What happens when Tom Black Bull encounters his bear cub the next spring at the reservation school boundaries?
7. What is happening to Tom Black Bull under Red Dillon's control that is frustrating him?
8. In Chapter 28, what is it that the reader learns has changed for Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull upon going back to Colorado?
9. How does the Black Bull family face the opening crisis situation in the first chapter?
10. What is Tom Black's intent regarding rebuilding his muscles following his Madison Square Garden fall?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Tom Black earned a name for himself riding rodeo. He made good money at times. Explain why it is that Tom will never return to ride in the arena.
Essay Topic 2
What does the introductory poem summarize? What about the American Indians' demise? What about the troubled course of this story's main character into manhood?
Essay Topic 3
Thomas Black Bull was given that baptized name by the white man. But the Ute Indians select their own names by which they will be known. Tom declares he will call himself Bear's Brother. How does he come to select that name?
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