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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jean do while she's talking to Matty about her father?
(a) Rearranges the items on her table.
(b) Pets the puppy.
(c) Opens a book that her father once read to her.
(d) Twists her apron in her hand.

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

3. What is the role of the adults of Village?
(a) Teaching the youngsters to take over as leaders.
(b) Read, learn, participate and care for each other.
(c) Teaching the children to be respectful of their elders.
(d) Produce food and share with each other.

4. Who is the first to go to the stage to make a trade?
(a) Leader.
(b) Matty.
(c) Mentor.
(d) Jean.

5. When did Seer first learn about Trade Mart?
(a) When he was newly arrived in Village.
(b) He was the one to begin Trade Mart.
(c) When Leader asked him to help stop Trade Mart.
(d) Long before he arrived in the Village.

6. What is the handicap of the new woman Matty stops to talk with?
(a) She is blind.
(b) She limps.
(c) Her arm is twisted.
(d) She has only one eye.

7. Why does Ramon say he has to go home?
(a) He's already late.
(b) His supper is waiting.
(c) He has a cough.
(d) He is in trouble .

8. What does Matty realize about Mentor?
(a) That he's lost weight.
(b) That he seems confident.
(c) That he has a girlfriend.
(d) That he seems unhappy.

9. What is wrong with the frog Leader sees in Forest?
(a) It is unable to catch insects.
(b) It is blind.
(c) It is unable to croack.
(d) It has a stiff back leg.

10. Who is Jean's father?
(a) No one knows.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Seer.
(d) Leader.

11. What does Mentor say he's going to trade for?
(a) A larger piece of land.
(b) Stocktender's widow.
(c) The ability to close the Village to outsiders.
(d) A gaming machine.

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

13. How does Matty measure his height?
(a) With a tape measure.
(b) Against the old man he lives with.
(c) Against the window.
(d) Against the doorframe.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Matty say he plans to vote on the issue of closing Village to outsiders?

2. What is Seer's response when Matty asks if Seer is afraid of Forest?

3. Who lives with Leader?

4. What does Matty notice about all the people at the Trade Mart?

5. What is the sled a symbol for?

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