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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through To the Edge of the World Section 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the next group of saldu leave in the cave when they return to look for Mother?
(a) Some baskets with food.
(b) A pocketknife and a sack of tobacco.
(c) Trash from their camp.
(d) A bow and a quiver of arrows.

2. What offering does Majapa blow into the ocean before he and Ishi leave?
(a) Acorn flour.
(b) Tobacco.
(c) Wheat flour.
(d) Cornmeal.

3. What is difficult about the shot that Ishi had taken at the saldu on horseback?
(a) He was shooting uphill at a moving target.
(b) He was shooting from behind a dense thicket of brush.
(c) He was able to shoot the saldu without harming Tushi.
(d) He was able to shoot him from behind without being seen.

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

5. What does the Golden Gate headland remind Ishi of?
(a) Waganupa.
(b) Wowunupo.
(c) Lookout Point.
(d) Black Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Elder Uncle, Timawi, and Ishi find when they return to the beaver dam?

2. What does Tushi's basket smell like to Ishi?

3. According to Majapa, why had he and his friend come to the Yahi world after the heat moons?

4. What museum items does Majapa take Ishi to see on his second day in the city?

5. What does Mother think the kind saldu wanted to do?

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