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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 talking about the war across the ocean.
(c) He is describing an archaeoligical discovery.
(d) He is telling him about the city.

2. Who is the first saldu to speak to Ishi?
(a) The Stranger brought by the Sheriff.
(b) The slaughterhouse foreman.
(c) The Sheriff.
(d) One of the men holding back the dogs.

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

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

5. How long is the bundle that the expressman delivers to the museum?
(a) The length of Ishi's arm to the tips of his fingers.
(b) The length of Ishi's entire body.
(c) As long as Ishi's leg.
(d) As long as the museum table.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes Ishi in the morning in "To the Edge of the World, Section 2?"

2. Where does Ishi go when needs to get away from the museum after his discussion with Majapa about the war?

3. What ritual does Ishi share with Majapa and Maliwal when they first arrive in Gahma?

4. When the Sheriff asks Ishi whether he would like to return to the Yahi world, why does Ishi decline?

5. How much time has passed since Ishi's arrival in the City by "To the Edge of the World, Section 5?"

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ishi's understanding of the war affect him?

2. Why is Ishi hesitant about bringing Majapa and Maliwal into the Yahi world?

3. Why is it important for Ishi to teach Maliwal?

4. Why does the return of his quiver and knife lead Ishi to suggest the trip to the Yahi world?

5. How does Mother's death affect Ishi?

6. According to Majapa, How was the Greek world similar to the Yahi world?

7. Which of Ishi's City experiences connect him with Tushi?

8. Why does Ishi choose to return to the museum rather than stay in the Yahi world?

9. How do the Sheriff's actions surprise Ishi?

10. How is Ishi affected by seeing the baskets that Tushi had made?

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