View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matty initially plan to do with the frog's injured leg?

2. What does Matty hope his true name will be?

3. What is the smell Matty detects as he arrives at the Trade Mart?

4. Who does Seer say he wants Matty to bring back from another village?

5. What does Matty say the trader asks of each person who goes forward to trade?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Mentor.

2. List at least three ways Matty can tell that he's growing up.

3. Why doesn't Matty tell Jean that he can use his gift to change her father back?

4. List two items that people traded for or tried to trade for during Trade Mart.

5. Why does Matty send Jean for herbs and what does he do while she's gone?

6. What does the woman who's only recently arrived in Village say about her son and her other children?

7. Describe how Matty came to heal the frog in Forest.

8. What does Jean tell Matty about her father's trade?

9. How does Ramon manage to bring up the Gaming Machine while he and Matty are preparing to fish and what is Matty's reaction?

10. How do Matty and Seer often spend their evenings and why does Matty say he wants a Gaming Machine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List at least three specific scenes in the book. What role does each play in the story? Which is most important to the story? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Compare the attitudes of the people of Village to the atmosphere of Forest. How does each change over the course of the book and why?

Essay Topic 3

Write a comparison of the characters of Matty and Leader. Be sure to consider the roles of each in the lives of the people of Village.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 829 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample