When the Legends Die Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Hal Borland
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

When the Legends Die Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Hal Borland
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 199 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of lodge does George Black Bull build when snow begins to show in the mountains?

2. What method does the Mexican ex-bronco rider use to quiet Tom Black Bull's life for a few hours?

3. Who does Tom Black Bull share a room with in the dormitory?

4. What happens with George Black Bull's body?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How do Tom Black Bull and his parents prepare for the winter on Horse Mountain?

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

4. What transpires during Tom Black's night ride at Madison Square Garden?

5. Bessie Black Bull is concerned in reference to what Jim Thatcher told her at the store about them no longer searching for George. What does she do?

6. How does Meo, the Mexican ex-bronco twister, take Tom Black Bull under his belt at Red Dillon's spread?

7. What is happening to Tom Black Bull under Red Dillon's control that is frustrating him?

8. How does Tom Black Bull manage as he rides the rodeo circuit the summer following Red Dillon's death?

9. Who is Tom Black reminded of by Mary Redmond attempting to pressure her way into his convalescence?

10. What is life like when Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull work the Oklahoma panhandle and eastern New Mexico in the spring, and Colorado the following autumn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Early in the book the reader learns the Utes are quite resourceful, and they approach life in a very practical fashion. When the farming methods taught them by the white man fail due to drought, they revert to their 'old ways', which are clearly in concert with nature. Contrast the approach of the white man to life with the 'old ways' handed down to Tom Black Bull by his parents.

Essay Topic 2

Blue Elk is an antagonist. He is a corrupted bridge linking the white and Ute worlds. Examine Blue Elk's responsibility for a significant amount of the misunderstanding and miscommunication between these two cultures. How does Blue Elk use his command of both languages to take advantage of the Ute Indians who do not speak English, and the white people who do not speak Ute? How does he exploit the greed of the white man? How does he exploit the Ute sense of justice and honesty? How is Blue Elk a twisted, unscrupulous variant of both the white man and the Ute Indian?

Essay Topic 3

The first horse Tom Black Bull rode to death was in his initial rodeo in Aztec. The last was in Madison Square Garden. What is Tom's violence directed against? Why does he take his violence out on the horses? What does Red Dillon represent? What does Tom become more like as he gives in progressively to his violence?

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