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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How old is Jim Wallace?
(a) Thirty-seven.
(b) Twenty-seven.
(c) Forty-seven.
(d) Seventeen.

4. How did Marta know first missionary in the village had a white beard?
(a) She knew the man as a child.
(b) She had seen pictures of him in the vicarage.
(c) She had heard the Bishop tell stories of him.
(d) She had heard stories from her elders.

5. Why didn't the hunters discuss their plans aloud?
(a) The women of the tribe would try to hunt the game first.
(b) The warrior spirits would try to trick the game into hiding.
(c) The animal spirits would conspire to harm the hunters.
(d) The animal spirits would hear, and the game would hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Mark and all the young people to rush on to the path?

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

3. What observation does T. P. Wallace make about Mark Brian?

4. In wintertime, how were the beliefs of the tribe relived?

5. The female salmon they watch is too weak to fight

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the state of the vicarage.

2. Describe Sam, the unlucky one.

3. What seems to be most important to the Bishop regarding the young man and the Indian village?

4. According to the myth, how was the old village formed?

5. Why is Marta Stephens knitting a hat for the vicar?

6. What recurring idea or image appears as the author describes the state of the village and the graveyard?

7. What makes hunting difficult for Mark Brian?

8. Describe the character of Constable Pearson.

9. How does Mrs. Hudson feel about the arrival of the new vicar?

10. Who comes to the vicar's first Sunday service?

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