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

2. Who has offered Mark Brian a great deal of advice and training?
(a) Caleb, the old canon.
(b) Rupert.
(c) The Archbishop of Canterbury.
(d) The Bishop.

3. Why is Mark Brian going to Alert Bay?
(a) H wants to see if he can get Keetah away from her white fiance.
(b) He wants to visit Gordon and the boys.
(c) He is going to visit his sister.
(d) He wants to see if he can get Ellie away from her parents.

4. 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.

5. Mark Brian believes the swimmer's fate is
(a) A disgrace.
(b) A tragedy.
(c) A joke.
(d) A triumph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Constable Pearson's actions makes the Indians hold in their laughter?

2. Peter wonders how long it will take the vicar to discover

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

4. Why did the white teacher choose to come to the village?

5. What happened to Keetah's sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to the RCMP when he tried to take pictures of the tribe members fishing?

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

3. What seems to be the consensus of opinions about Mark Brian among the elders?

4. Who speaks at the funeral after Mark Brian is done?

5. Describe the state of the vicarage.

6. Why does Mark agree to help Gordon get an education?

7. What does the Bishop's letter teach Mark Brian about the white man's "problem" with the Indians?

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

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

10. Why does Mark Brian refuse the Bishop's offer to send a new vicarage?

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