1. How does the sheriff approach Ishi?

2. Why does the sheriff put Ishi in jail?

3. What does Ishi expect during his first days in captivity? Why?

4. What happened to the woman who jumped overboard?

5. What incident three years earlier do the anthropologists remember? How does the incident relate to Ishi?

6. What group do the anthropologists guess that Ishi belonged to?

7. What word does Waterman say that Ishi recognized? What does the word mean in English?

8. What does Waterman tell Kroeber about Ishi?

9. What does Waterman misunderstand in conversing with Ishi?

10. Who is sent for to act as an interpreter? How does this person treat Ishi?

11. Where does Ishi spend the rest of his years?

12. What had happened to the other members of Ishi's group?