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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 8 | Part 1, Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frank No Deer buy with the $15 he steals?
(a) Traps.
(b) Sheep.
(c) A plow.
(d) A new suit.

2. When the first frost arrives, Bessie examines the pine nuts, acorns, and fish they have and decides what?
(a) It was better with the corn grown in the fields.
(b) The white man's supplies were better.
(c) They needed to find additional food.
(d) This is the way it should be.

3. Twisted in spirit by first learning as a boy, then in young adulthood trying to kill memories and old influences, what happens to Tom?
(a) False legends arise, but he is able to remain focused.
(b) He builds his own false legends as he goes.
(c) He makes the trek without building any legends.
(d) He makes the transition integrating the legends.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many baskets does Bessie Black Bull trade for an ax, ammunition, a hunting knife, and candy at Jim Thatcher's store?

2. What do Bessie and Tom Black Bull gather willow shoots and other plants for?

3. While en route to rendezvous with her husband, Bessie Black Bull and her son bathe in a ritual cleansing while singing what?

4. Who is it that tracks the few Utes who have left the reservation to their camp?

5. The main character, a Ute boy, first learns the Indian legends, keeps them alive, and then lives with white men. What happens to him, ultimately?

(see the answer key)

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