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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Jim and Mark are out on the boat
(a) A hurricane occurs.
(b) An earthquake occurs.
(c) A landslide occurs.
(d) A tornado occurs.

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

3. Though Mark Brian feels he has made friends with loneliness, deprivation, and death, he feels he was constantly supported by
(a) His faith.
(b) His family.
(c) His wife.
(d) His friends.

4. Whose health was revived by the tribal dances and rituals?
(a) Mrs. Hudson's.
(b) Chief Eddy's.
(c) Marta's.
(d) T.P. Wallace's.

5. In March, what burden is lifted from the villagers?
(a) The burden of winter.
(b) The burden of Sam.
(c) The burden of liquor.
(d) The burden of the white man.

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

7. Who orchestrates the boys' housing and schooling arrangements?
(a) Mark's sister.
(b) The RCMP.
(c) The Bishop.
(d) Caleb.

8. What is causing new conflict among the villagers?
(a) The ability to marry outside the tribe.
(b) The ability to buy liquor.
(c) The ability to buy prescription drugs.
(d) The ability to travel to other villages.

9. The rain and mud slide at the start of Chapter 13 signal an example of
(a) Irony.
(b) Tone.
(c) Onomatopeoia.
(d) Foreshadowing.

10. Caleb warns Mark that
(a) Soon the outside world will forget the village.
(b) Soon the villagers will ask him to leave.
(c) Soon the outside world will intrude upon the village and the tribe.
(d) Soon the villagers will leave for the outside world.

11. Marta's prayer for Mark
(a) Echoes the prayers Mark taught her.
(b) Echoes the prayer of a mother for her child.
(c) Echoes the prayer of a woman for her lover.
(d) Echoes the prayer of an Indian for a white man.

12. The elders now believe
(a) Their dead can rest in peace.
(b) A new graveyard is necessary.
(c) Their dead will reward Mark Brian.
(d) Mark Brian truly understands their ways.

13. Who travels up the river with Mark and the Bishop?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Calamity Bill.
(c) A pregnant woman.
(d) A drunken villager.

14. On the river, Mark stops to help
(a) Two loggers moving a float camp.
(b) Two loggers hauling a load of lumber.
(c) Two fishermen bringing in their catch.
(d) Two tourists stranded on their yacht.

15. According to Jim, Keetah does not say goodbye to anything in the village because
(a) She never wants to see it again.
(b) She knows she will come back to it.
(c) She is too distraught to think clearly.
(d) She knows it does not matter to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mark Brian stay while the new vicarage is being constructed?

2. Gordon claims he cannot come "home" again because

3. What is Mark's chief concern for the Indians while he is away from the village?

4. Keetah wants to bear Gordon's child so that

5. Who unexpectedly visits the village?

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