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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To the Edge of the World Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tushi collecting while Ishi counts Beaver?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Boadicea bulbs.
(c) Acorns.
(d) Wild berries.

2. How does Ishi know that the saldu have made it to the ledge of their village?
(a) He hears their knives cutting through the brush.
(b) He has had a dream that warned him of this.
(c) He can see them from the top of the pine tree.
(d) He can smell them approaching.

3. Where does Ishi go when the summer gets too hot?
(a) Back to the house of flint cave.
(b) To the pines above Three Knolls.
(c) To Wowunupo.
(d) Back to Banya Creek.

4. What detail does Grandmother add to the end of Grandfather's story about Jikula and Ahalamila?
(a) The Yahi women are responsible for ensuring that the men remain peaceful.
(b) Ahalamila's mother forgave Jikula and brought peace to the Yahi.
(c) The son of Ahalamila, Topuna, avenged his father's death.
(d) Jikula felt remorseful and sought out forgiveness from Ahalamila's mother.

5. What does Ishi decide to do with the hide of the deer that he kills?
(a) To give it to Mother so that she can make a new warm skirt for winter.
(b) To give it to Tushi so that she can make a warm blanket.
(c) To make a new quiver for his arrows.
(d) To present it to Grandfather as a gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ishi decide he will preserve the Yahi Way?

2. Why do Ishi and Timawi have little fear of the saldu during the cold winter?

3. Where does Majapa want Ishi to take him?

4. What does Mother take from her treasure bundle and wear on the night that she dies?

5. Why does Mother pour the water out of the baskets every evening?

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