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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. What is the smell Matty detects as he arrives at the Trade Mart?
(a) Spearmint.
(b) Pine.
(c) Unhappiness.
(d) Candy.

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

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

4. What is Matty's punishment when he makes a mistake?
(a) He's not allowed to attend school that day.
(b) He's spanked.
(c) He's not allowed to fish for a week.
(d) He has to weed the garden all afternoon.

5. What does Seer say when he learns that Matty plans to attend?
(a) That he must go with Ramon.
(b) That he cannot make any trade.
(c) That he must go with Leader.
(d) That he must take something to trade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Seer light a lamp as Matty is preparing to leave?

2. What is the creature Matty finds soon after entering Forest?

3. What are Matty and Seer doing when Ramon comes by with the news?

4. What does Matty say Ramon's mother traded for?

5. How many children did Gatherer have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Seer ask of Matty after the people vote to close Village to outsiders?

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

3. What is Matty's condition, and what does he do after healing the puppy and its mother?

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

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

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

7. There's a group gathered in chapter eleven to consider closing Village to outsiders. What does Seer say during that meeting about Matty's arrival at Village and what is the response of a neighbor woman?

8. What is Ramon's message at the beginning of chapter six and what do Matty and Seer do with that information?

9. What has changed in the village where Matty lived prior to coming to Village?

10. Why doesn't Matty want to tell Seer where he's going after supper?

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