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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. 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 learn the white man's ways.
(c) Believing he needs to teach his people.
(d) Believing the 'old ways' are dead.

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

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

4. Why has Tom Black Bull taken well to caring for the sheep?
(a) The goats wander too far.
(b) It is a part of his nature.
(c) The pigs are always groveling in mud.
(d) It is not as much work as horses.

5. How is Tom Black Bull punished when he fights other boys?
(a) He is flogged.
(b) He is made to stay out in the cold.
(c) He is forced to make more baskets.
(d) He is forced to stand in a corner.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Tom Black Bull escapes the school, what old Indian tracker is sent with Benny Grayback to find him?

2. What does Tom Black Bull do to relieve his anger when Red Dillon enters him into rodeo bronco riding competitions to cheat?

3. How is George Black Bull killed?

4. What does Frank No Deer buy with the $15 he steals?

5. The spring after they are run out of Felice, where do Tom Black Bull and his teacher work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Tom Black Bull introduced to his moneymaking skills in Chapter 21?

2. What compels Tom Black back to Horse Mountain?

3. How is it that Tom Black Bull comes to get his nickname, 'Killer Tom Black' on the circuit?

4. What happens when Tom Black Bull arrives with his bear cub companion in town to trade basketry?

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

6. How does Mary Redmond attempt to pressure herself into becoming a continuing part of Tom Black's rehabilitation?

7. What transpires when Tom Black Bull makes the escape from the agency school to his lodge on the mountain in October?

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

9. After returning to Pagosa following his injuries in New York, what does Tom Black recall when he enters Thatcher's Market?

10. What is Tom Black's intent regarding rebuilding his muscles following his Madison Square Garden fall?

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