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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tushi's basket smell like to Ishi?

2. What does Ishi teach Maliwal in "To The Edge of the World, Section 7?"

3. What does Ishi find in the mud along the banks of the river?

4. How does Ishi get rid of the brown bear that wants his cave?

5. Why is Ishi amazed when the Stranger tells him that they will travel by train?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence in Section 4 of "The Ending People" reveals Mother's emotional strength?

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

3. How do Mother and Ishi support each other after they are separated from Elder Uncle and Tushi?

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

5. How do Ishi's friends show respect for him after his death?

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

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

8. What is Ishi's first impression of the saldu village?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are Ishi and his family about to avoid the saldu for so long? Analyze the measures that the tribe takes in order to hide their existence from the saldu all around them. How do these efforts protect them? What causes these efforts to fail? In the end, was hiding their best option, or should they have taken another approach? Support you opinions with specific evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

When Ishi tells Majapa that the Yahi world is dead, Majapa replies, "I think it is not dead. You remember it, and I remember it." Remembering is an important theme in the novel, the memory of experiences, of places, and most importantly of people. Explain how "remembering" teaches and consoles the characters in the novel. Be sure to use specific examples as support.

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the roles of men and women in the Yahi culture. What expectations are held for women? What expectations are held for men? What might explain the differences in these gender roles? How are men and women each shown respect? Provide examples to support your points.

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