I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Answer the following questions in complete, well-thought-out sentences.

1. Why does the Bishop send Mark to the Indian Village?

2. What does Caleb give Mark that served him well with the Indians?

3. What does Mark see in the Indians eyes? In Jim’s?

4. What name does the tribe give Mark? Why?

5. Who are Mark’s first Indian visitors?

6. What is Mark’s first official duty in the village?

7. For what English word do the Indians have no native word? What is the significance of this easily-overlooked fact?

8. What is Constable Pearson’s reaction to the weesa-bedo? What shows in the Indians eyes when they see this?

9. What does Mark stop using after his first bear hunt?

10. When does mark finally feel he knows the Indians?

Reading Guide—Part Two

1. What makes Peter afraid?

2. What does Gordon know in his heart?

3. Why is Mrs. Hudson extremely sad in regards to one of her granddaughters?

4. Why do Mrs. Hudson and her family leave the village?

5. What upsetting statement does Mrs. Hudson make to Mark as she and the other “oldsters” leave the village?

6. What happens to Keetah’s sister?

7. What promise does Mark make to Gordon’s mother?

8. What offer does Chief Eddy make to Mark?

9. What happens at the end of this section to make Mark very grateful?

10. How does the Bishop explain the Indians’ acceptance of Mark?

1. What does Mark encourage Keetah to do?

2. What will happen in August that greatly worries Mark?

3. What vegetable does Mrs. Hudson prepare when whites visit the village? Why?

4. How does the Bishop trick Mrs. Hudson into getting out of bed during his visit?

5. What is the symbol in the village for the white man?

6. How does Caleb help the four boys going away to school?

7. What good news awaited Mark when he returned from vacation?

8. Why are the elders particularly grateful to Mark?

9. What decision does Gordon make?

10. What friend does Caleb say the Indians rely upon?

1. What promise does Mark make to Calamity Bill?

2. What news does Keetah share with Mark when she returns to the village?

3. What does Mark confide in Keetah?

4. Why does the Bishop come to the village?

5. What news does the Bishop have for Mark? How does this make Mark feel?

6. What does Mark tell Marta, to which she simply replies, “Yes, my son?”

7. What honor do the villagers give Mark when they find out he is dying?

8. How does Mark die?

9. What vegetable does Mrs. Hudson decide to serve after Mark’s funeral?

10. What did Mark ask of Jim?