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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. After two years, George and Bessie Black Bull are in debt for how much to the white man?
(a) $32.
(b) $52.
(c) $42.
(d) $62.

2. When late March arrives, Tom Black Bull knows the time has come for what?
(a) The Bear Growling.
(b) The Bear Song.
(c) The Bear Mating.
(d) The Bear Dance.

3. Upon returning to the ranch to recover a second time, Tom Black Bull learns what about the Mexican ex-bronco rider?
(a) He decided to commit suicide by gunshot.
(b) He drowned attempting a rescue in a flooded stream.
(c) He decided to die in his sleep.
(d) He broke his neck falling from a horse.

4. The smell of burnt coffee in New York first reminds Tom Black of when he burned the San Juan barn, and then of what?
(a) Reservation life as a young child, his mother's breakfasts.
(b) Agency school life, his first time eating white man's food.
(c) Burnt coffee in all the cheap cafes he ate at.
(d) Everything about living on the San Juan ranch.

5. What happens during one rodeo ride in Texas requiring hospitalization for Tom Black Bull?
(a) He breaks his hip.
(b) He breaks his arm.
(c) He breaks his collarbone.
(d) He breaks his leg.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animals does Tom Black leave the remainder of his uneaten, initial breakfast pancakes for?

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

4. West of Corpus Christi, Tom Black Bull assesses his life and his riding skills. How many horses have died under him?

5. Tom Black Bull is taken to his new dormitory room to get what?

(see the answer key)

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