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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the defect of Mentor?
(a) A red birthmark on his face.
(b) A serious limp.
(c) One arm is smaller than the other.
(d) A red birthmark on his leg.

2. What is being proposed as a new rule in Village?
(a) To make new rules about sharing food.
(b) To elect a new leader.
(c) To close it to outsiders.
(d) To create a new form of government.

3. How did Trade Mart begin?
(a) It began as a way to obtain things from outside the village.
(b) No one remembers.
(c) It began as an opportunity to trade extra produce.
(d) It began as a way to trade recipes and information.

4. What does Seer say about Ramon's voice among those keening?
(a) That Ramon doesn't know how to keen correctly.
(b) That Ramon is nearly a man.
(c) That Ramon has learned well.
(d) That Ramon has a cough.

5. Who does Seer say he wants Matty to bring back from another village?
(a) The new woman's children.
(b) Seer's daughter.
(c) As many people as he can.
(d) Matty's brother.

6. Why does Seer light a lamp as Matty is preparing to leave?
(a) He doesn't light a lamp.
(b) So Seer can finish a needlepoint.
(c) In case Matty comes home after dark.
(d) So their guests can see to eat.

7. How can Seer tell how many are grieving?
(a) By the different pitches.
(b) He's heard the number from a neighbor.
(c) He can't tell.
(d) They keen one at a time.

8. Why does Matty go to pick up the puppy from Jean's house?
(a) The mother dog is snapping at the puppy.
(b) The mother dog has died.
(c) Her father is angry that the puppy is eating so much.
(d) Her father is angry that the puppy is so mischievous .

9. How many children did Gatherer have?
(a) One .
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

10. Who does Jean say her father has gone to see?
(a) Gather's widow.
(b) Stocktender's widow.
(c) Leader.
(d) Seer.

11. Who does Matty see beside the new woman he'd talked to earlier?
(a) Her son.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Jean.
(d) Leader.

12. What kind of floor is there in the house where Matty lives?
(a) Dirt.
(b) Tile.
(c) Wooden.
(d) Thatch.

13. What does Matty note about Mentor when he sees him in Village?
(a) Mentor is no longer limping.
(b) The color of Mentor's birthmark is lighter.
(c) Mentor seems happier.
(d) Mentor seems angry.

14. What does Matty draw in the dirt near Jean's house?
(a) A skull and crossbones.
(b) A heart with both their names.
(c) Lips.
(d) Two people holding hands.

15. What kind of stringed instrument does Seer play in the evenings?
(a) A guitar.
(b) A mandolin.
(c) A fiddle.
(d) The book doesn't say.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was not among the things Matty brought in for a salad?

2. Where does Matty's mother live now?

3. Who lives with Leader?

4. What kind of fish are Ramon and Matty fishing for?

5. How was the frog injured?

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