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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 happens when the vicar prays for help about the decayed vicarage?
(a) He decides his faith is waning.
(b) Indians arrive to help him rebuild.
(c) He receives a loan from the church.
(d) He receives a letter from the Bishop that same afternoon.

2. What happens to the salmon, or swimmer, at the end of his journey?
(a) He chooses a mate.
(b) He returns to the ocean.
(c) He waits for his eggs to hatch.
(d) He dies.

3. How does Mark Brian approach the village of Kingcome?
(a) On a forty-foot raft.
(b) On a forty-foot boat.
(c) On a hydro-plane.
(d) On a rowboat.

4. Why is Keetah's family leaving the tribe to live in a deserted village?
(a) They are going to start their own tribe and traditions.
(b) They are ashamed that a family member will marry a white man.
(c) They are going to find a better life after selling a tribal mask.
(d) They are ashamed that a drunken family member sold a tribal mask.

5. What is true of both the swimmer and Mark Brian?
(a) They are both outcasts of society.
(b) They are both kinds of fish.
(c) They are both unclear about their purpose.
(d) They are both doomed to complete their task and die.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the men deliver the organ to the church

2. Before he travels to the village, Mark Brian

3. What activity contributes to Mark Brian's feeling of responsibility to the Indians?

4. Families gather at the end of the salmon run to

5. What fact associates Mark Brian with "the swimmer?"

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jim interested in the prayer Mark Brian recites?

2. What information does Mark learn from the RCMP about Keetah's sister?

3. What seems to be the consensus of opinions about Mark Brian among the elders?

4. Describe the Bishop's intentions for the young ordinand.

5. How do most of the Indians behave toward Mark Brian?

6. Describe Sam, the unlucky one.

7. What is significant about the names of the characters revealed in the Introduction?

8. What did mothers of deceased children tell them as part of the old tradition?

9. Why does Mark Brian refuse the Bishop's offer to send a new vicarage?

10. While Mark feels he has learned little about the Indians, what does the Bishop tell him?

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