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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. Tom Black Bull and his teacher are run out of Felice with the latter shirtless, so he leaves what on a clothesline they pass?

2. After Tom Black Bull's injury heals they go to Colorado, but his instructor is unable to pull the con, so what happens?

3. In regards to Blue Elk being willing to sell his own grandmother, what is his reply?

4. What differs between horses that Tom Black Bull rode on the sagebrush range and those that he rides on the new spread?

5. Two white men exit a saloon and offer Tom Black Bull how much to ride 'his horse' at the end of town?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tom Black prepare for the winter on the first bench of Granite Peak?

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

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

5. What compels Tom Black back to Horse Mountain?

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

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

8. What transpires the day after Tom Black Bull spies the gold prospector by the stream?

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

10. What is the bear cub that is shackled in the corral symbolic of?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tom Black Bull is taught to ride broncos at Red Dillon's ranch. His new life is totally apart from everything Ute Indian. What is the sequence of steps Red utilizes in teaching Tom? What does Tom have to learn along the way as he advances? What unethical maneuvers does Red plan to utilize to make money from Tom's efforts?

Essay Topic 2

Are all those whom Tom Black Bull encounters intent on using him by compelling him to adapt to the white way? How does Jim Thatcher affect Tom's life? What about other individuals?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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