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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long does Ishi continue to live in the museum?
(a) For twenty more years.
(b) Only four more changings of the moon.
(c) For many moons.
(d) About a year.

2. What does the girl in the arroyo never do that Ishi finds unique?
(a) She never wears shoes.
(b) She never asks his name or where he lives.
(c) She never seems to fear anything.
(d) She never speaks.

3. What is Ishi's visitor talking about when they are having tea?
(a) He is talking about fishing in the Outer Ocean.
(b) He is describing an archaeoligical discovery.
(c) He is telling him about the city.
(d) He is talking about the war across the ocean.

4. To whom does Ishi compare himself and Majapa?
(a) Mother and Elder Uncle.
(b) Grandfather and Elder Uncle.
(c) Himself and Tushi.
(d) Kaltsuna and Jupka.

5. What does Mother take from her treasure bundle and wear on the night that she dies?
(a) Her shell necklace.
(b) Her feather cape.
(c) Ishi's bone earrings.
(d) Her sweetgrass bracelet.

6. 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) Back to Banya Creek.
(d) To Wowunupo.

7. What does Ishi share with Majapa as they sit on the bank of Banya Creek?
(a) His acorn mush.
(b) His deerskin blanket.
(c) His pipe and tobacco.
(d) His story about his Dream.

8. For what is Ishi looking when he goes to the mountain?
(a) The saldu village.
(b) A house of flint in which to live.
(c) The spirits of Tushi, Mother, and Elder Uncle.
(d) The Outer Ocean.

9. How does the group travel from the saldu village to the Yahi world?
(a) On foot.
(b) By train.
(c) On horseback.
(d) By wagon.

10. For how many days do Majapa and Maliwal go to Outer Ocean to offer prayers and sacrifices for Ishi's spirit?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

11. Why does Ishi at first refuse the food and drink that the Sheriff offers him?
(a) He is too afraid to be hungry.
(b) He is still in mourning, so he is fasting.
(c) The food does not look appetizing.
(d) He thinks it might be poisoned and too many people are staring at him.

12. Whose Dream do Ishi and the others follow as they travel into the Yahi world?
(a) Ishi's Dream.
(b) Maliwal's Dream.
(c) Tushi's Dream.
(d) Majapa's Dream.

13. What is inside the package that the expressman delivers?
(a) Ishi's old juniper bow and arrows.
(b) Tushi's treasure bundle.
(c) Ishi's old otterskin quiver and his rock-glass knife and case.
(d) Ishi's fishing nets and harpoon.

14. Where do Ishi and Mother move after Tushi and Elder Uncle disappear?
(a) To Ishi's fishing shelter.
(b) Back to Tuliyani.
(c) To Three Knolls.
(d) To Acorn Hollow.

15. What is Ishi looking for when he wanders into the saldu village?
(a) The entrance to the cave at Wowunupo.
(b) The Trail to the Land of the Dead.
(c) His old fishing shelter.
(d) The Outer Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Majapa, what keeps the Yahi world alive?

2. What methods does Ishi use to catch fish?

3. According to Ishi, what problem arises from wearing shoes?

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

5. When does Majapa wish to visit the Yahi world?

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