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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ishi give the enclosed note to Majapa?
(a) Ishi does not know how to read, so he asks Majapa to read the note.
(b) Ishi is overwhelmed by the package and does not want to read the note.
(c) Ishi does not realize that the note is for him.
(d) Majapa asks Ishi if he can read the note.

2. Why does Majapa agree to start their journey in Gahma?
(a) He has heard that it is a beautiful place.
(b) It is the closest village along their journey.
(c) That is where Ishi was born, where his journey began.
(d) He is happy to go anywhere that Ishi wants to go.

3. What does Ishi teach Maliwal in "To The Edge of the World, Section 7?"
(a) How to catch fish using only his hands.
(b) How to walk quietly and cover his tracks.
(c) To make bow, arrows, and quiver and shoot the weapon.
(d) How to speak the Yahi language.

4. Where does Ishi go when needs to get away from the museum after his discussion with Majapa about the war?
(a) To Golden Gate.
(b) To Outer Ocean.
(c) To his room.
(d) To the park.

5. How does Ishi decide he will preserve the Yahi Way?
(a) He will teach children who visit the museum about the Yahi Way.
(b) He will marry and raise a child who will carry on the Yahi tradition.
(c) He will return to the Yahi world and live as he used to.
(d) He will tell stories and describe the Way so that Majapa can write it down.

6. For how long does Ishi sleep after he buries Mother?
(a) He sleeps until the Harvest.
(b) He sleeps for the rest of the winter, until the New Year.
(c) He sleeps for six months.
(d) He sleeps for a full week.

7. Why does Ishi not disturb the icicles that have formed on the entrance to the cave?
(a) He does not want to leave any evidence that he has been there.
(b) They are sacred to him because he believes they are from Tushi's dream.
(c) The icicles are so large that they could be dangerous.
(d) He is too tired to notice that they are there.

8. 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 fishing nets and harpoon.
(d) Ishi's old otterskin quiver and his rock-glass knife and case.

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

10. What does Ishi do after Majapa and Maliwal are asleep?
(a) He watches them and prays over them.
(b) He takes a sweat bath and bathes in the river.
(c) He goes to Ancestor Cave to pray and make a sacrifice.
(d) He goes into the woods to hunt for deer.

11. According to Majapa, why had he and his friend come to the Yahi world after the heat moons?
(a) They wanted to find and help Ishi and his mother.
(b) They were hunting for elk.
(c) They were looking for more artifacts for the museum.
(d) They wanted to learn more about the geography of the area.

12. What does Tushi's basket smell like to Ishi?
(a) It smells like dried acorns.
(b) It smells like Banya Creek.
(c) It smells like Tushi's skin.
(d) It smells like the cave at Wowunupo.

13. Where does Ishi go when the summer gets too hot?
(a) To the pines above Three Knolls.
(b) Back to the house of flint cave.
(c) To Wowunupo.
(d) Back to Banya Creek.

14. What service does Ishi offer to the museum?
(a) He offers to keep the rooms clean and to polish the artifacts.
(b) He offers to guide the visitors through the exhibits.
(c) He offers to make a variety of Yahi objects for the museum's displays.
(d) He offers to tell his story to the museum visitors.

15. How does Ishi die?
(a) Among his friends at the museum.
(b) In a hospital room surrounded by his friends.
(c) Back at Tuliyani with Majapa and Maliwal.
(d) On the shores of Outer Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the waves leave for Ishi when he stands on the shore?

2. What does Ishi think of the notebooks that Majapa shows him?

3. Who is the first saldu to speak to Ishi?

4. How does the group travel from the saldu village to the Yahi world?

5. As Majapa and Maliwal leave Outer Ocean on the final day of their prayers, what does the moon look like?

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