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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 about the stranger fascinates the women in the clan?
(a) His blonde hair and blue eyes.
(b) His clothes.
(c) His accent.
(d) His golden skin.

2. Where did Alice go to college?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Anchorage.
(d) Boston.

3. What joke do crows love?
(a) Knock-knock jokes.
(b) Politically incorrect jokes.
(c) Light bulb jokes.
(d) A sloppy rescue.

4. Why does Ike spray sewage?
(a) He drank too much.
(b) It was an accident.
(c) Just for fun.
(d) Protest his daughter's death.

5. What did Alice become famous around town for?
(a) Her secret husband.
(b) Being nice.
(c) Singing.
(d) Drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In relation to the rest of the world, how do people in the town feel?

2. The two explorers mentioned are Bering and ______.

3. What does Steubins warn Ike not to do?

4. When the town was discovered, it was generally _________.

5. Who is Archie Culligan?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Alice back in Kuinak?

2. Does Ike try to isolate himself?

3. How would you describe Mike as a husband?

4. Why is Alice drinking again?

5. Is there much concern about Mike?

6. What is the overall theme of Chapter 2?

7. How do we better understand Ike by the end of Chapter 8?

8. Why is Shoola and the Sea Lion an appropriate or inappropriate children's book?

9. In Shoola and the Sea Lion, why are the women fascinated by the stranger?

10. Why is Steubins' advice appealing to the town leaders?

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