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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of Constable Pearson's actions makes the Indians hold in their laughter?
(a) He cannot find his way around the village.
(b) He is physically sick at the sight of the dead body.
(c) He is physically sick after he eats a meal with the tribe.
(d) He cannot find the dead body.

2. When Mark Brian sees the tribe approaching the church single file, he is reminded of
(a) Their oppression by the white man.
(b) Their travel up the river.
(c) Their duty to him as their vicar.
(d) Their travel from the mountains to the Bering Sea.

3. Why does Caleb feel Mark should be sorry for the Indians?
(a) Because they are so uncivilized.
(b) Because they must endure his presence on their land.
(c) Because they must teach him everything.
(d) Because they need salvation.

4. What does Mark Brian discover about himself at the start of the chapter?
(a) He is not liked by the tribal women.
(b) He still does not understand Kwakwala.
(c) He must work harder to force the Indians to trust him.
(d) He can understand Kwakwala.

5. How does Mark Brian approach the village of Kingcome?
(a) On a rowboat.
(b) On a hydro-plane.
(c) On a forty-foot boat.
(d) On a forty-foot raft.

6. Mark Brian will have to work closely with an agent from
(a) The Indian Affairs Department.
(b) The Archbishop of Canterbury.
(c) The Federal Bureau of Investigation.
(d) The Internal Revenue Service.

7. Who invited Mark to go hunting?
(a) Marta Stephens.
(b) Chief Eddy.
(c) Peter.
(d) Jim.

8. The Bishop reveals that Kingcome is
(a) Where he would want to go to spend his dying days.
(b) Where he would want to go if he were in the young man's place.
(c) Where he would want to go to renew his faith.
(d) Where he would want to go to escape the real world.

9. The vicar believes he will have to begin his work by
(a) Begging for what he needs.
(b) Rolling up his shirtsleeves.
(c) Outsmarting the Indians.
(d) Trading for what he needs.

10. Before he travels to the village, Mark Brian
(a) Carefully tends to the boat.
(b) Writes letters to his family.
(c) Reconsiders his decision to live in the village.
(d) Suns himself while waiting for Jim to arrive.

11. The young ordinand has less than two years to
(a) Live outside the hospital.
(b) Live an active life.
(c) LIve without life support.
(d) Live away from home.

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

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

14. Mark Brian succeeds where the doctor failed to
(a) Pull Sam's tooth.
(b) Pull Ethel's tooth.
(c) Pull Peter's tooth.
(d) Pull Marta's tooth.

15. How does Jim know that the RCMP officer, Constable Pearson, will be young and hard?
(a) He claims the Indians always know who is coming before they arrive.
(b) He claims the older man who last held the office was hard.
(c) He claims the RCMP officers are always young and hard.
(d) He claims an older man would not wait ten days to come investigate a child's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinguishes Marta Stephens as very old?

2. What animal's image is carved above the Bible?

3. What does the vicar discover will take him many hours in a day?

4. What does Mark Brian do when the Bishop offers to send a new vicarage?

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

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