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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) He makes the trek without building any legends.
(b) False legends arise, but he is able to remain focused.
(c) He builds his own false legends as he goes.
(d) He makes the transition integrating the legends.

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

3. Blue Elk talks Tom Black Bull into doing what with the bear cub?
(a) Releasing him in the mountain.
(b) Selling him to Blue Elk.
(c) Chaining him in a corral.
(d) Selling him to Jim Thatcher.

4. How long following his punishment does Tom Black Bull escape the school?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 1 week.
(d) 3 days.

5. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?
(a) Believing the townsfolk will hunt his cub bear unless he does.
(b) Believing he needs to teach his people.
(c) Believing he needs to learn the white man's ways.
(d) Believing the 'old ways' are dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom Black Bull is left with the horses when his instructor buys a pickup and trailer, then goes to do what?

2. When Tom Black Bull is entered in the first rodeo in Aztec, what is he instructed to do?

3. The Mexican ex-bronco rider that now cooks is correct when he says what?

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

5. How many days away from the agency school does Blue Elk take Tom Black Bull and the bear cub?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tom Black initially dream of while in the hospital?

2. Why is it that Tom Black Bull gets by caring for sheep with Albert Left Hand?

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

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

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

6. What causes Tom Black's nightmares to cease?

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

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

9. In Chapter 28, what is it that the reader learns has changed for Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull upon going back to Colorado?

10. What happens when Tom Black Bull takes more than 700 dollars from Red Dillon?

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