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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Cave Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much time has passed at the beginning of The Cave section?
(a) Three days.
(b) Three months.
(c) Three years.
(d) Three weeks.

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

3. Why do Ishi and Timawi have little fear of the saldu during the cold winter?
(a) The gods protect the Yahi during the winter.
(b) They could easily track any of the saldu through the snow.
(c) The saldu do not ride the trails when they are covered in ice.
(d) Ishi and Timawi believe that the saldu hibernate like the bear.

4. Why does Ishi retrieve his arrow from the tree into which he had misfired?
(a) He does not want any saldu to see it and suspect that there are Yahi nearby.
(b) He is embarrassed that someone will see it and know that his first shot missed.
(c) He wants to keep it as a memento of his first deer.
(d) It takes a lot of work to make an arrow, and the arrowhead is treasured.

5. According to Elder Uncle's story, why did Ishi's father kill the saldu who had come to their village?
(a) The saldu had shot a hole through the men's house.
(b) The saldu had stolen food from the village.
(c) The saldu had killed and scalped a man from a neighboring village.
(d) The saldu had threatened Ishi's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ishi's reward for constructing a superb bow?

2. According to the story that Grandfather tells, where did the old woman hide the fire that she had stolen from the Fire People?

3. What is difficult about the shot that Ishi had taken at the saldu on horseback?

4. How soon does Elder Uncle suggest that they move to the cave?

5. Why does Timawi carry the elk antlers on his head?

(see the answer key)

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