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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Moon Seasons Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Grandmother, when did she first meet Ishi's mother?
(a) When Mother was first born.
(b) After Ishi was born.
(c) When Ishi's father brought her home as his wife.
(d) When Mother was Tushi's age.

2. Ishi learns to stay awake for how many nights?
(a) Three nights.
(b) Five nights.
(c) Six nights.
(d) Seven nights.

3. How tall is Black Rock?
(a) Three times the height of Ishi's house.
(b) Three times the height of a man.
(c) As tall as four large pines trees.
(d) As tall as a grizzly bear standing on two legs.

4. According to the Yahi creation story, how did creation begin?
(a) The Great gods cracked open an egg, and the parts settled to become different parts of the earth.
(b) The earth fell from the heavens, fully formed.
(c) The Great gods dragged the uncreated world up from the bottom of the Outer Ocean.
(d) The Great gods simply called the earth forth to assemble it into landforms and waterways.

5. What detail does Grandmother add to the end of Grandfather's story about Jikula and Ahalamila?
(a) Ahalamila's mother forgave Jikula and brought peace to the Yahi.
(b) The son of Ahalamila, Topuna, avenged his father's death.
(c) Jikula felt remorseful and sought out forgiveness from Ahalamila's mother.
(d) The Yahi women are responsible for ensuring that the men remain peaceful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ishi's reward for constructing a superb bow?

2. How does Ishi think his mother feels when he sees that she is wearing her sweetgrass bracelet?

3. What do the women do while the men hunt for deer?

4. Why does Ishi retrieve his arrow from the tree into which he had misfired?

5. Why do the Yahi no longer spend the summer on the mountain?

(see the answer key)

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