View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the deaths of Grandfather and Grandmother, what name does Ishi use to refer to himself and the remaining Yahi?
(a) The Ancestors.
(b) The People of Wowunupo.
(c) The Ending, or Last, People.
(d) The First People, the Beginners.

2. Why is Ishi concerned about Grandmother and Grandfather?
(a) They do not have much food to eat and are growing weak.
(b) They are forgetting the stories that they have told for years.
(c) They are too quiet and do not speak to the others anymore.
(d) They are getting older and will soon die.

3. What reason does Timawi give to explain why it is acceptable to steal saldu food?
(a) The saldu hunt Yahi food, so they might as well eat saldu food.
(b) The saldu have taken Yahi lives and land, so they owe the Yahi at least a little food.
(c) The saldu do not live according to the Way, so their possessions do not belong to them.
(d) The saldu have so much that they will never notice the loss of a couple of lambs.

4. According to Grandmother, when did she first meet Ishi's mother?
(a) When Mother was first born.
(b) When Mother was Tushi's age.
(c) When Ishi's father brought her home as his wife.
(d) After Ishi was born.

5. 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) The son of Ahalamila, Topuna, avenged his father's death.
(c) Jikula felt remorseful and sought out forgiveness from Ahalamila's mother.
(d) Ahalamila's mother forgave Jikula and brought peace to the Yahi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tushi ask Grandmother to do in order to make the time pass while Ishi and Timawi are gone?

2. What purpose is served by the pinecones that come from the gray pine?

3. How does Elder Uncle purify Ishi of any danger that might have followed him from the spirit world?

4. From what kind of tree does Ishi cut the branch for his bow?

5. What advice does Elder Uncle give to the tribe after Timawi expresses his anger with Ishi for letting the saldu escape?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the saldu treat Ishi's village when they discover it?

2. Why does Ishi go the Black Rock?

3. How has the relationship between Ishi and Tushi changed since they first came to Wowunupo?

4. According to Timawi, how were the seven remaining members of the Yahi tribe able to survive?

5. Why does Elder Uncle agree to move into the abandoned bear den in spite of his reservations?

6. How is Ishi's bow important for his development into manhood?

7. What assurance does Ishi give to Timawi when Timawi observes that Tushi prefers Ishi's company?

8. What does Tushi refuse to wear the sweetgrass bracelet that Timawi wants to give her?

9. Why does Ishi choose not to kill the snow rabbit?

10. What details about the Harvest Feast suggest that Ishi and his family are the last of their tribe?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,249 words (approx. 5 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample