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

2. Who waits up for Mark at the end of the novel?
(a) Jim.
(b) Marta.
(c) Keetah.
(d) Peter.

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

4. On his way back to the village, Mark hears the owl call his name, signaling
(a) His time in the village is over.
(b) His impending death.
(c) His impending departure.
(d) His life has had meaning.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When he returns, Mark visits

2. What does the English anthropologist call the Indian tribe?

3. Mark Brian dies when

4. When Mark releases Calamity Bill's ashes,

5. Who surprises Mark with a visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the elders afraid of the hamatsa?

2. Why is T. P. Wallace throwing a dance-potlatch for Jim?

3. How does Mark Brian help the villagers solve their problem with the burial grounds?

4. Who is the Englishwoman who comes to visit the village?

5. Why does Mark conclude that the villagers still do not know or trust him?

6. What is the mood among the boys going to live at the white school?

7. Describe Mark and Jim's relationship.

8. Why does Keetah return to the village without Gordon?

9. In what state does Mark find the village when he returns?

10. What advice does Mark offer Gordon before they part?

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