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

2. The passage at the end of the novel means
(a) That is all.
(b) The End.
(c) Thank you.
(d) God Bless.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Keetah does not come to see him, Mark decides

2. What did the villagers do to celebrate this "friend?"

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

4. Mark advises Jim to

5. What is T.P. Wallace's announcement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Peter sit up waiting for the vicar after his funeral?

2. What does Mark learn among the elders during his stay at Marta's?

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

4. Who contributes to the preparations for Mark's funeral?

5. What does the long boat trip back to the village from Knight's inlet offer Mark the opportunity to do?

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

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

8. Though the river freezes, how do the villagers survive?

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

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

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