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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman Keetah had lived with at school
(a) Gave her every chance to prove herself in the white world.
(b) Denied her food and lodging when she arrived.
(c) Was afraid of her and treated her badly.
(d) Was supportive and caring.

2. What will Mark Brian tell the first Indian man who asks to borrow money when he has spent all his earnings on liquor?
(a) Mark Brian will tell the man to fish and hunt to feed his family.
(b) Mark Brian will tell the man to write the Bishop for money.
(c) Mark Brian will tell the man to seek employment in another town.
(d) Mark Brian will tell the man he should not have sinned by drinking liquor.

3. When Keetah returns to the village, she finds
(a) She has changed, but the village has not.
(b) The village has changed, but she has not.
(c) She is no longer welcome in the village.
(d) She has changed in different ways that the villagers have.

4. 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.

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

6. Why are the elders concerned about the burial grounds?
(a) The white tourists have located it and insist on visiting.
(b) The Indians keep getting drunk and passing out there.
(c) Many coffins have fallen from the trees and bones lie on the ground.
(d) The coffins are overcrowding the villagers' homes.

7. What did the villagers do to celebrate this "friend?"
(a) They turned it into a mask.
(b) They turned it into a dance.
(c) They turned it into a myth.
(d) They turned it into a shrine.

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

9. Who alerts the Bishop to Mark's physical condition?
(a) Jim.
(b) Marta.
(c) Mrs. Hudson.
(d) Keetah.

10. On behalf of Calamity Bill, Mark Brian refuses
(a) The offer of a ride from the hospital boat.
(b) The offer of a suit for his burial.
(c) The offer of help cremating the body.
(d) The offer of a coffin the loggers built.

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

12. The dying man asks Mark Brian to
(a) Contact all his friends and relatives.
(b) Obtain a fine suit for his burial.
(c) Deliver a fine eulogy for him.
(d) Spread his ashes in a certain place.

13. 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 they are fishing.
(c) Because a drunk, young logger has asked them for help.
(d) Because they are lost at sea.

14. Ironically, Sam's drinking causes
(a) His wife to insist that he attend Alcholics Anonymous.
(b) HIs wife to insist that their daughter go to school.
(c) His wife to leave him for another man.
(d) His wife to insist that their son go to school.

15. Mark discovers the man has
(a) A broken back.
(b) A broken collarbone.
(c) A broken leg.
(d) A broken hip.

Short Answer Questions

1. On his way back to the village, Mark hears the owl call his name, signaling

2. Who is found ill, alone in his shack?

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

4. Mark observes that everything in nature

5. When Mark releases Calamity Bill's ashes,

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