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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, Chapter 44.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When his plowing fails, Tom Black Bull is next set to task as what?
(a) A herd boy with the cows.
(b) A coop boy with the chickens.
(c) A herd boy with the goats.
(d) A shepherd boy with the sheep.

2. Tom Black Bull is left with the horses when his instructor buys a pickup and trailer, then goes to do what?
(a) Buy beer.
(b) Sell his ranch.
(c) Sell the horses.
(d) Attempt to collect bets.

3. In New York, Tom dreams of back-country rodeos, the San Juan ranch, his mother, and mountains, but all the dreams end how?
(a) Him trapped saddled to a bronco forever falling.
(b) As a youth bathing in an icy brook, chanting to a new day.
(c) His first ride on a bronco in a small rodeo.
(d) He and his mother fleeing Pagosa to meet his father.

4. How does Tom Black Bull share part of his deer kill?
(a) With Jim Thatcher.
(b) With a bear.
(c) With the sheriff.
(d) With Blue Elk.

5. He will soon be out of the hospital and on his way to mend, so what does Tom Black do with his dreams and nightmares at this stage?
(a) Stays awake so he will not face them.
(b) Forgets them by drinking alcohol more heavily.
(c) Discusses them with a counselor.
(d) Places them behind him.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Bessie Black Bull goes back to town a third time, what does she trade with Indian women in exchange for information about Blue Elk?

3. Living on the mountain is healing his soul and Tom Black is slowly recalling his former self when he lived how?

4. Tom Black Bull is given a single room at whose suggestion?

5. Upon Bessie Black Bull's second trip to trade baskets at Jim Thatcher's store, what does she get?

(see the answer key)

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