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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of fish are Ramon and Matty fishing for?

3. Who lives with Leader?

4. How was the frog injured?

5. Why does Matty wish he was grown?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Jean tell Matty about her father's trade?

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

5. How does Ramon manage to bring up the Gaming Machine while he and Matty are preparing to fish and what is Matty's reaction?

6. Why doesn't Matty tell Jean that he can use his gift to change her father back?

7. Describe Mentor.

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What might have happened if Matty had chosen not to give his life in order to heal the land? Why was Matty willing to make that sacrifice?

Essay Topic 2

What is Kira's gift? What is Matty's gift? What is Leader's gift? What is Seer's gift? Which gift is the most vital and why? Which person is happiest with his or her gift? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Compare the attitudes of the people of Village to the atmosphere of Forest. How does each change over the course of the book and why?

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