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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. For what reason does Matt think Attean returns each day?
(a) Attean was lonely.
(b) Attean's grandfather sent him.
(c) Attean enjoyed making Matt look foolish.
(d) Attean enjoyed teaching Matt.

2. What is Attean permitted to eat during his stay alone in the forest?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Smoked fish.
(c) Salt-dried meat.
(d) Nuts and berries.

3. What does Attean teach Matt that he could make a rain cape from?
(a) Beaver skin.
(b) Rabbit hide.
(c) Birchbark.
(d) Fox hide.

4. When Attean appears with paint on his skin, what does Matt think?
(a) He thinks Attean has gone mad.
(b) He thinks Attean is painted for a celebration.
(c) He thinks Attean is painted for war.
(d) He thinks Attean is painted to scare Matt.

5. What does Matt really love to have to add to his fish and make it taste delicious?
(a) Herbs.
(b) Pepper.
(c) His mother's special sauce.
(d) Animal fat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal is in the trap that they come upon?

2. When Matt and Attean are hiking in the woods, they come upon a trap. Of what is the trap made?

3. When Matt is alone and feeling lonely, what does Matt imagine might have happened to his father?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 24, Mat gazes up to the sky and talks to the dog. What does he talk about?

5. As Matt and Attean take leave of each other, who does Matt say he would like Attean's grandfather to meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is it ironic that Matt wonders how the Great Spirit that the Indians worship seem to be like the Indians themselves--i.e. a mighty hunter, very strong?

2. How do the setting and details that the author uses to describe autumn work to match Matt's mood when he recognizes that his family is past due?

3. Even though they are husband and wife, why do Saknis's feelings about the white man differ from the feelings of Attean's grandmother?

4. Matt gets considerable reassurance of his acceptance in Chapter 22 when Attean renews his invitation to Matt to join them to find a new hunting ground. How does Matt's response please and simultaneously disappoint Attean?

5. Attean tells Matt that it is the white man who introduced metal traps to the Indians. What does the trap symbolize to Attean?

6. Since Matt has spent time with the Indians, how is he better able to make provisions for the winter?

7. What is the conflict Matt faces when Saknis invites him to come along on the hunt with his people as Attean's brother?

8. How does Matt's reaction to the cleanup being relegated to squaws indicate that he is more accepting of cultural differences?

9. When Attean takes Matt around to see the Indian women working, why is this work of such interest to Matt and of little interest to Attean?

10. When Matt comes upon the Attean's dog in the trap, he knows he is in the land of the turtle and should not tamper with anything there. Why does he knowingly go against the law that Attean taught him?

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