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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. Why do Jim and Mark go out on the boat during a storm?
(a) Because a drunk, young logger is lost at sea.
(b) Because a drunk, young logger has asked them for help.
(c) Because they are lost at sea.
(d) Because they are fishing.

2. Who promises to return to the village at Christmas time?
(a) Keetah.
(b) Jim.
(c) Chief Eddy.
(d) Gordon.

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

4. What is Mark's chief concern for the Indians while he is away from the village?
(a) That liquor will destroy them.
(b) That Sam will hurt someone.
(c) That he does not belong there anymore.
(d) That the Bishop will arrive and find him missing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Bishop come back to the village?

2. Why doesn't the hospital ship come for the dying man?

3. The teacher does not attend the funeral because

4. Caleb felt himself an intruder when visiting

5. Who seems to have a hard time adjusting to white society at first?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Caleb like the Cedar-man, according to Mark?

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

3. What evidence of community is apparent in the chapter?

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

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

6. Why are the elders afraid of the hamatsa?

7. Why does Mark claim he is offering Jim advice on how to treat Keetah?

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

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

10. Describe the visitors to the village in Chapter 13.

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