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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 does Kira carry in her pack?
(a) Food and water.
(b) Food and clothing.
(c) Her tapestry and materials.
(d) Clothing and blankets.

2. What happens when Matty sits on a log that he'd always used for a bench during his previous travels?
(a) He is almost instantly covered with vines.
(b) He can't find it.
(c) He's immediately hit with the stench of decaying matter.
(d) It crumbles and breaks apart.

3. What prompts the profound sadness Matty feels?
(a) All the above.
(b) The fact that Frolic is nearly dead.
(c) The fact that Kira is so weak.
(d) The fact that Village is no longer a happy place.

4. Who takes the messages out by the river?
(a) Water Boy.
(b) No one.
(c) River Messenger.
(d) Boater.

5. What is the weather like as Matty is preparing to leave?
(a) It's cloudy but hot.
(b) It's sunny and very hot.
(c) It's snowing.
(d) It's raining.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Matty sense as he feels himself stop breathing?

2. What is the path like by this point in the journey?

3. How does Kira know that Matty is going to ask her to leave with him?

4. What does Leader say was the very first thing he saw "beyond?"

5. What do Kira and Matty decide to do to get past the stench from Forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the things Kira had done for Matty when he was a child?

2. What has Seer discovered about the changes of the Forest from his home and how does he make this discovery?

3. Why does Matty tell Kira to take up her embroidery again in chapter nineteen?

4. Why is Kira scorned by the people of her village and why is she needed?

5. What is the conversation Kira and Leader have when they meet in "Beyond" for the first time?

6. Describe how Matty and Kira cross the swampy area.

7. What does Leader do to prepare for his journey into Forest and why?

8. What is the memory Matty has about Jean as he's talking to Kira when they camp for the first night in Forest? What does he tell Kira about Jean?

9. What is Matty's reaction when Kira takes out her embroider and what does Kira discover after she's worked at it?

10. How does Matty convince Kira that his gift is real and what does he tell her about healing humans?

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