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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is causing new conflict among the villagers?
(a) The ability to marry outside the tribe.
(b) The ability to buy prescription drugs.
(c) The ability to buy liquor.
(d) The ability to travel to other villages.

3. Mark observes that everything in nature
(a) Seemed to know its place.
(b) Seemed to sense his illness.
(c) Seemed to know he did not belong.
(d) Seemed to sense his presence.

4. What favor does Keetah ask from Mark on behalf of the villagers?
(a) She asks him to stay until he dies.
(b) She asks him to bring the Bishop back.
(c) She asks him to perform her marriage to Jim.
(d) She asks him to help her find Gordon again.

5. What does the English anthropologist call the Indian tribe?
(a) Quackadoodles.
(b) Quackers.
(c) Labradoodles.
(d) Quakers.

6. When Mark releases Calamity Bill's ashes,
(a) He hears Calamity Bill whisper goodbye.
(b) He hears the Bishop call his name.
(c) He hears to raven call his name.
(d) He hears his prayers echo back to him across the channel.

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

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

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

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

11. The woman Keetah had lived with at school
(a) Was supportive and caring.
(b) Was afraid of her and treated her badly.
(c) Denied her food and lodging when she arrived.
(d) Gave her every chance to prove herself in the white world.

12. Mark compares Caleb's role among the Indians to that of
(a) The Cedar man.
(b) The Bishop.
(c) The Salmon man.
(d) The Hamatsa.

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

14. Who is found ill, alone in his shack?
(a) Calamity Bill.
(b) Sam.
(c) Mark.
(d) Jim.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The dying man asks Mark Brian to

2. When Keetah returns to the village, she finds

3. What two reasons demand that the vicarage be built before August?

4. The passage at the end of the novel means

5. When Keetah returns, it is because

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