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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Tom Black's second dream while in the juniper on Horse Mountain, thoughts of what go through his mind?
(a) Situations of extreme physical pain.
(b) Loneliness in the absence of his father and mother.
(c) Feeling of the icy cold water he bathed in.
(d) Items he has smelled or tasted burnt.

2. How does Tom Black describe broncos to Mary Redmond?
(a) As mean outlaws.
(b) As troubled spirits.
(c) As mountain bears.
(d) As merely untamed.

3. Mary Redmond tells Tom Black that she has located a rest home in the country run by whom?
(a) A man she knows.
(b) A young couple she knows.
(c) A retired couple she knows.
(d) A woman she knows.

4. What does Tom Black do in response to an animal near him in the meadow being killed by a wild animal?
(a) Helps the dogs round the sheep in chaos.
(b) Pulls his leg chasing the wild animal.
(c) Shoots the wild animal that killed the lamb.
(d) Chases the wild animal up the mountainside.

5. Where does Tom Black leave his clothes bag while he walks up the street?
(a) With the waitress.
(b) With the bus station clerk.
(c) With the train station clerk.
(d) With the postal clerk.

6. How does Tom Black Bull feel about his first ride in the big time?
(a) Displeased, it was only average.
(b) Pleased, it far exceeded average.
(c) Annoyed, it was less than average.
(d) Satisfied, it was better than average.

7. Looking back, what does Tom know the bear would have done had he fired his rifle and missed the bear's heart?
(a) Stared at him.
(b) Killed him.
(c) Awaited to be killed.
(d) Run away.

8. Tom Black tracks the bear up the mountain, circles back around to where he started, and discovers what?
(a) Where it cached a carcass.
(b) Not another sign.
(c) Only an old sign where it once slept.
(d) Not another fresh sign.

9. 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) Agency school life, his first time eating white man's food.
(b) Reservation life as a young child, his mother's breakfasts.
(c) Burnt coffee in all the cheap cafes he ate at.
(d) Everything about living on the San Juan ranch.

10. When Tom Black Bull tells his instructor that he will not ride the circuit with him anymore, he advises he will do what instead?
(a) Return to his mountain alone.
(b) Ride the big time alone, for keeps.
(c) Find safer, steadier work.
(d) Work the con circuit by himself.

11. What form of signaling does Albert Left Hand exercise with his dogs that Tom Black attempts again?
(a) Hand signaling.
(b) Smoke signaling with his pipe.
(c) Ute terminology.
(d) Whistling.

12. After several more seasons, legends about Tom Black Bull start to crop up as well as what new nickname?
(a) Killer Tom Black.
(b) Ruthless Tom Killer.
(c) Hostile Tom Devil.
(d) Tom Black Vengeance.

13. When he makes his way around the mountain the first time in his search for the bear, the odds are in favor of it being what type?
(a) Large black, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.
(b) The grizzly cub he knew as a child, not a large cinnamon.
(c) Large mountain bear, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.
(d) Large cinnamon, not the grizzly cub he knew as a child.

14. What is it that Tom Black finally comes to realize he must face after his being crushed under the horse in Madison Square Garden?
(a) His killing a horse.
(b) His punctured lung.
(c) His not settling down.
(d) His fear.

15. What does Tom Black Bull's instructor die from?
(a) A brain aneurysm.
(b) A bad heart, liver, and kidneys.
(c) Being thrown from a horse.
(d) A gunshot wound.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom sets out to kill a boyhood, ends up killing the man he has been for so long, and finds what?

2. Tom's mother told her son that time lays scars on a man, becoming part of his being, just like what?

3. Tom Black wants to start over again; however, according to the code of the rodeo, where does he have to start?

4. When the time comes where Tom Black is looking for rehabilitation homes, what is Mary Redmond trying to do?

5. Starved, what does Tom Bull begin cooking for his next meal following breakfast on his initial day at work?

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