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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what follows Jim and Mark back to the camp?
(a) The mate of the bear the hunters killed.
(b) The mate of the wolf the hunters killed.
(c) The mate of Caleb.
(d) The mate of Chief Eddy.

2. What does Mark Brian promise the dying woman?
(a) He will help her granddaughters get married.
(b) He will help her son get an education.
(c) He will help her daughter find a husband.
(d) He will help her find her way back to the tribe.

3. How does Mark describe the inanimate?
(a) Receptive, agreeable, and easygoing.
(b) Angry, vengeful, and dangerous.
(c) Remote, fearfull, and unreachable.
(d) Solid, stubborn, and indifferent.

4. Mark Brian believes the swimmer's fate is
(a) A tragedy.
(b) A disgrace.
(c) A joke.
(d) A triumph.

5. Jim is concerned about Keetah because
(a) She is still engaged to Gordon.
(b) She is pregnant
(c) She is worried about her sister.
(d) She is very sick

6. What formality does Jim help Mark leave behind?
(a) The formal use of the word "you."
(b) Speaking Kwakwala.
(c) Shaking hands.
(d) The formal use of the word "we."

7. What arrived at the village in November?
(a) The government ship.
(b) The navy ship.
(c) The army ship.
(d) The hospital ship.

8. What does Peter claim causes this new feeling among the villagers?
(a) The young people are changing because the tribes are intermarrying.
(b) The young people are changing because they are not being educated.
(c) The young people are changing because they are learning the white man's ways.
(d) The young people are changing because they are afraid of the white man's ways.

9. Families gather at the end of the salmon run to
(a) Hold the salmon festival.
(b) Celebrate the death of the salmon.
(c) Retell myths and smoke fish.
(d) Discuss tribal business.

10. What do Jim and Mark witness on the river?
(a) They witness dolphins swimming to the ocean.
(b) They witness a murder.
(c) They witness a run of salmon.
(d) They witness a lunar eclipse.

11. Why doesn't the young man know about his illness?
(a) The Bishop has not told him yet.
(b) The doctor tries to cover it up.
(c) The man does not speak the native's language.
(d) The villagers are trying to treat it.

12. Mark Brian believes that if a man were to vanish from this area
(a) He would leave no trace of himself behind.
(b) He would have to leave a trail for others to find him.
(c) He would become a ghost like the Indians.
(d) He would never find his way home.

13. What small revenge does Mrs. Hudson have on the white man?
(a) She refuses to speak English to them.
(b) She serves them mashed turnips.
(c) She knits them itchy hats.
(d) She serves them wild goose.

14. Mark returns to the vicarage and to the smell of
(a) Dinner.
(b) Hope.
(c) Death.
(d) Fire.

15. Who is T.P. Wallace?
(a) The chief of the tribe.
(b) The new constable.
(c) The elder and orator of the tribe.
(d) Jim Wallace's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the whole tribe home together for the first time since Mark's arrival in the village?

2. Sam plans to ask the vicar

3. What happens when the vicar prays for help about the decayed vicarage?

4. Mark and Jim share a picnic with

5. Who did Constable Pearson bring with him to the village?

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