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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. What is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
(a) Hunting and fishing.
(b) Farming corn.
(c) Raising hogs.
(d) Raising chickens and turkeys.

2. What is Bessie's response to the situation her man has gotten into?
(a) She chastises her husband - he has gotten his family into deep trouble.
(b) She understands an unspoken truth - George acted justly, according to his conscience.
(c) She questions George - what has he done to be chased by the white man.
(d) She collects her son and departs - George acted foolishly, in anger.

3. The other students tease Tom Black Bull about his basket weaving skill and call him what?
(a) Baby Bear.
(b) Bear's Sister.
(c) She-bear.
(d) Basket Woman.

4. The last time Tom Black Bull returns to the hotel to find his instructor asleep and drunk again, he does what?
(a) Takes all but $5 from his pocket.
(b) Takes all but $10 from his pocket.
(c) Takes all but $20 from his pocket.
(d) Takes all but $15 from his pocket.

5. When Tom Black Bull realizes he has been betrayed by Blue Elk, what does he fight for?
(a) The life of his spirit and freedom.
(b) The endurance of his spirit and frustration.
(c) The duration of his pride.
(d) His anger and frustration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Tom Black Bull's parents teach him the methods of building lodges, preparing food for winter, and what else?

3. The Mexican ex-bronco rider knows that by Tom Black Bull giving in to his violence, he will become what?

4. How does Blue Elk trick Tom Black Bull into agreeing to go to the agency school?

5. What does the bear cub that Tom Black Bull takes care of represent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull exercise their con at the Bernalillo rodeo?

2. What happens when Tom Black Bull encounters his bear cub the next spring at the reservation school boundaries?

3. What are the 'old ways' Bessie Black Bull teaches Tom as they escape Pagosa and flee into Horse Mountain to link up with her husband, George?

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

5. How are the images of roundness of life contrasted with the white man's squareness?

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

7. What compels Tom Black back to Horse Mountain?

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

9. How does Tom Black Bull adjust to life at the agency school?

10. What transpires between Bessie Black Bull and Ute Indian women from the reservation regarding Blue Elk and his thievery?

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