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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 is the name of the Mexican ex-bronco rider who now cooks at Tom Black Bull's new residence?
2. Why has Tom Black Bull taken well to caring for the sheep?
3. What is the white man's idea of how the Utes should live?
4. What method does the Mexican ex-bronco rider use to quiet Tom Black Bull's life for a few hours?
5. When Bessie Black Bull goes back to town a third time, what does she trade with Indian women in exchange for information about Blue Elk?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 28, what is it that the reader learns has changed for Red Dillon and Tom Black Bull upon going back to Colorado?
2. What transpires when Tom Black Bull makes the escape from the agency school to his lodge on the mountain in October?
3. What are some of his thoughts related to the bear during Tom Black's first night spent back at the old sheep camp?
4. What causes Tom Black to change his plans again when Woodward collects his sheep for the winter?
5. Why is the reservation school unsuccessful in teaching Tom Black Bull how to plow fields?
6. Why is Tom Black unable to shoot the bear after waiting all night?
7. What are some reasons Tom Black decides that he must return to the rodeo?
8. How does Tom Black prepare for the winter on the first bench of Granite Peak?
9. 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?
10. Following a number of days tracking the bear, what does Tom Black locate on Bald Mountain's first bench?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Chapter 42, Tom accepts a simple job of shepherding when he comes back to Pagosa to recover. When he is alone with the sheep, what is he surprised by? What are the memories that flood back? How does he adjust to the simple life as he recuperates and makes plans to return to the rodeo?
Essay Topic 2
Roundness of life is a significant theme in this story. It unfolds through Bessie Black Bull, who maintains the 'old ways' and instructs them to Tom. What is it the reader learns to look for with this theme? How does the concept of continuation within all life tie in with this 'roundness' theme? Detail the method Bessie uses to teach this intrinsic truth concerning nature.
Essay Topic 3
Thomas Black Bull was given that baptized name by the white man. But the Ute Indians select their own names by which they will be known. Tom declares he will call himself Bear's Brother. How does he come to select that name?
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