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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ironically, Sam's drinking causes
(a) His wife to leave him for another man.
(b) HIs wife to insist that their daughter go to school.
(c) His wife to insist that their son go to school.
(d) His wife to insist that he attend Alcholics Anonymous.

2. Though Mark Brian feels he has made friends with loneliness, deprivation, and death, he feels he was constantly supported by
(a) His faith.
(b) His wife.
(c) His family.
(d) His friends.

3. Who orchestrates the boys' housing and schooling arrangements?
(a) The Bishop.
(b) The RCMP.
(c) Mark's sister.
(d) Caleb.

4. The visitors cause Mark Brian to feel what about the world of the white man he has left behind?
(a) He feels he no longer knows it, and is ashamed of it now.
(b) He feels he has abandoned his people by leaving it.
(c) He feels he never belonged in it.
(d) He feels he must go back and save it.

5. Who travels up the river with Mark and the Bishop?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Calamity Bill.
(c) A pregnant woman.
(d) A drunken villager.

6. When he returns, Mark visits
(a) Keetah's family.
(b) Marta's house.
(c) The burial grounds.
(d) The vicarage.

7. What will Mark Brian tell the first Indian man who asks to borrow money when he has spent all his earnings on liquor?
(a) Mark Brian will tell the man he should not have sinned by drinking liquor.
(b) Mark Brian will tell the man to seek employment in another town.
(c) Mark Brian will tell the man to write the Bishop for money.
(d) Mark Brian will tell the man to fish and hunt to feed his family.

8. According to the myth, the hamatsa is
(a) A prostitute.
(b) A white man.
(c) A cannibal.
(d) A cedar tree.

9. Mark advises Jim to
(a) Treat Keetah as a traditional wife.
(b) Treat Keetah as he does the elders.
(c) Treat Keetah as a partner in their marriage.
(d) Treak Keetah as he always has.

10. What does Mark Brian try to prepare the school boys for?
(a) Living with women.
(b) Living in white society.
(c) Living among strangers.
(d) Living in the Indian world.

11. What tree has been a great "friend" to the Indians?
(a) The elm tree.
(b) The oak tree.
(c) The cedar tree.
(d) The pine tree.

12. The rain and mud slide at the start of Chapter 13 signal an example of
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Tone.
(c) Onomatopeoia.
(d) Irony.

13. What is Mark's chief concern for the Indians while he is away from the village?
(a) That Sam will hurt someone.
(b) That the Bishop will arrive and find him missing.
(c) That liquor will destroy them.
(d) That he does not belong there anymore.

14. Who unexpectedly visits the village?
(a) A group of southern Californian tourists.
(b) A group of clergymen.
(c) A groups of Indians from a neighboring village.
(d) A group of tourists from Texas.

15. When Keetah does not come to see him, Mark decides
(a) He may have mistaken the reason for her return.
(b) He may not really know the Indians at all.
(c) He might be in love with her.
(d) She might not want to see him again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Marta asks Mark to dinner because

2. On the river, Mark stops to help

3. The teacher does not attend the funeral because

4. Why do Jim and Mark go out on the boat during a storm?

5. Gordon claims he cannot come "home" again because

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