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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cave Section 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ishi not tell Elder Uncle or Mother about his visits to Black Rock?
(a) He knows they would worry, and they already have enough to worry about.
(b) If he tells them, they will want to go with him.
(c) Ishi is afraid that they would make fun of him.
(d) They have told him repeatedly not to go there.

2. What does Elder Uncle tell Ishi to seek when he leaves Tuliyani?
(a) A prayer-place so that he might dream a Power Dream.
(b) Guidance from the gods to help him find a wife.
(c) Revenge for the death of his father.
(d) The old villages and caves from Grandfather's stories.

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

4. How tall is Black Rock?
(a) Three times the height of Ishi's house.
(b) As tall as a grizzly bear standing on two legs.
(c) Three times the height of a man.
(d) As tall as four large pines trees.

5. Why does Ishi release the rabbit that he catches while he is out collecting lichen?
(a) The rabbit came because it was curious, not because Ishi had been hunting.
(b) Ishi thinks the rabbit is too cute to eat.
(c) The rabbit appears to be as hungry and weak as he and his family.
(d) Somehow, the rabbit reminds Ishi of Tushi.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Elder Uncle, why is a bow better than a trap?

2. Why does Ishi retrieve his arrow from the tree into which he had misfired?

3. Why does Ishi not like the Green Cave?

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

5. How much time has passed at the beginning of The Cave section?

(see the answer key)

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