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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 he attend Alcholics Anonymous.
(c) HIs wife to insist that their daughter go to school.
(d) His wife to insist that their son go to school.

2. Caleb felt himself an intruder when visiting
(a) Deserted villages.
(b) Indians' homes.
(c) The boat.
(d) The vicarage.

3. What two reasons demand that the vicarage be built before August?
(a) In August the mosquitos came and illness would follow.
(b) In August Keetah and Gordon would be married and they would leave the village.
(c) In August the rains began and liquor would be legal for Indians.
(d) In August Mark Brian would leave and the Bishop would arrive.

4. What is Jim's response to Keetah's state of health?
(a) He says she will not raise the child herself.
(b) He says a child is always welcome.
(c) He says a child is always a reminder of past mistakes.
(d) He says no child of Gordon's will ever be his.

5. Who tells Mark the myth of the hamatsa?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Peter.
(c) Mrs. Hudson.
(d) Marta.

6. The dying man asks Mark Brian to
(a) Contact all his friends and relatives.
(b) Spread his ashes in a certain place.
(c) Deliver a fine eulogy for him.
(d) Obtain a fine suit for his burial.

7. Mark Brian dies when
(a) A tornado destroys his boat.
(b) A crash destroys his boat.
(c) His illness overwhelms him.
(d) A landslide destroys his boat.

8. Who promises to return to the village at Christmas time?
(a) Chief Eddy.
(b) Jim.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Keetah.

9. Whose health was revived by the tribal dances and rituals?
(a) Chief Eddy's.
(b) T.P. Wallace's.
(c) Marta's.
(d) Mrs. Hudson's.

10. The Bishop hopes Mark's time in the village has taught him
(a) Enough of the meaning of life to be ready to die.
(b) The difference between whites and Indians.
(c) To appreciate the good things life has offered him.
(d) The cold indifference of nature.

11. Why are the elders concerned about the burial grounds?
(a) Many coffins have fallen from the trees and bones lie on the ground.
(b) The coffins are overcrowding the villagers' homes.
(c) The Indians keep getting drunk and passing out there.
(d) The white tourists have located it and insist on visiting.

12. Who seems to have a hard time adjusting to white society at first?
(a) Jim.
(b) Mark.
(c) Gordon.
(d) Keetah.

13. When Keetah returns, it is because
(a) She has to ask for help from Gordon's relatives.
(b) She cannot find Gordon.
(c) She chooses to return to the village.
(d) She has been defeated by the white world.

14. Who alerts the Bishop to Mark's physical condition?
(a) Keetah.
(b) Marta.
(c) Jim.
(d) Mrs. Hudson.

15. What news does the Bishop give Mark at the end of the chapter?
(a) Mark's work in the village is not yet done.
(b) The Bishop has been disappointed in Mark's work, so he must leave the village.
(c) The Bishop will ask Mark to stay on in the village though he is ill.
(d) The Bishop will seek replacement for Mark, and Mark will leave the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Bishop come back to the village?

2. Though Mark Brian feels he has made friends with loneliness, deprivation, and death, he feels he was constantly supported by

3. Who orchestrates the boys' housing and schooling arrangements?

4. What major change occurs at the beginning of Chapter 18?

5. Keetah wants to bear Gordon's child so that

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