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

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

3. What does Ishi ask to do before he puts on the saldu clothing?
(a) He wants to wash.
(b) He wants to eat.
(c) He wants to use the bathroom.
(d) He wants to make an offering to the Spirits.

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

5. What ritual does Ishi share with Majapa and Maliwal when they first arrive in Gahma?
(a) A Yahi purification blessing.
(b) A storytelling dance.
(c) A tobacco offering to the Spirits.
(d) A sweat bath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Majapa and Maliwal scatter over the waves as their sacrifice?

2. What does Ishi do after Majapa and Maliwal are asleep?

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

4. Why does Mother pour the water out of the baskets every evening?

5. How does Ishi decide he will preserve the Yahi Way?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Ishi value about his relationship with the girl that he meets in the arroyo?

5. What are Ishi's initial reactions to the City?

6. Why does the "friend" return Ishi's quiver and knife to him?

7. How does spring bring new life to Ishi?

8. What details lead Ishi to believe that Elder Uncle and Tushi have not survived the escape?

9. How might Ishi's actions following Mother's death be described as a type of symbolic death?

10. How does Ishi discover a way of preserving the Yahi world?

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