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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. Who assures Matt that the local Indians were not to be feared?
(a) His preacher.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His Indian friends from Massachusetts.

2. What does the word "seba" mean?
(a) Yesterday.
(b) Today.
(c) Tomorrow.
(d) Sunday.

3. What fruit does Matt find nearby?
(a) Strawberries.
(b) Grapes.
(c) Blueberries.
(d) Apples.

4. Why does Attean have a problem with Matt's sitting next to him?
(a) Attean feels that Matt talks too loud.
(b) Attean does not want Matt so close.
(c) Attean mistrusts Matt.
(d) Attean says he wants to stand.

5. What is the first sign to Matt that something bad has happened to his cabin while he was gone?
(a) The door was torn off and broken.
(b) He heard voices from within the cabin.
(c) He smelled smoke.
(d) The garden was robbed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Attean?

2. As Matt sits waiting for his dinner to cook, he hears someone. Who/what does he first think he hears?

3. What does Saknis make for Matt that is made of wood?

4. What does Matt think of the difficulty of climbing the tree that has bees in it?

5. What is one book that Matt has in the cabin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Matt deal with his disappointment in not hitting the red squirrel that he sets out to kill for food?

2. How is Matt's experience of learning how to make a bow different from the other hunting lessons of Attean so far in the story?

3. How does the story of Robinson Crusoe become more than a reading book for Attean and Matt?

4. How does Matt's garden experience prove to be frustrating?

5. Matt wakes in the morning dreading the task of teaching Attean to read. Explain the reason for this dread and whether it is justified.

6. How does Matt intend to deal with his loneliness?

7. Attean, to say the least, is uncooperative in his first reading lesson. Explain his behavior and the feelings behind this behavior.

8. Characterize the relationship that develops between Saknis and Matt.

9. How is Matt more apt to question slavery now when reading with Attean and never before?

10. In Chapter 11, the reader comes upon the explanation of the title of the novel, "the sign of the beaver." What is the sign of the beaver?

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