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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. When Attean becomes angry and storms out of the cabin in Chapter 9, in what mood is Matt left?
(a) Angry.
(b) Reflective.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Hurt.

2. How many children are living with Matt's mother?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

3. Who bakes the johnnycake that Matt eats after hunting?
(a) A local Indian.
(b) Matt.
(c) Matt's mother.
(d) Matt's father.

4. How old will Matt be in seven weeks from the day his father leaves?
(a) Fourteen years old.
(b) Fifteen years old.
(c) Thirteen years old.
(d) Twelve years old.

5. From what does Matt's suspicion come that he is being watched?
(a) A smell of another fire.
(b) A shadow.
(c) A noise.
(d) Footprints.

Short Answer Questions

1. How often is Matt instructed to cut a notch in the stick?

2. What is one book that Matt has in the cabin?

3. What are less of a nuisance to Matt now that it is July?

4. According to the stranger, what life experiences does this man have?

5. What does Matt think of the difficulty of climbing the tree that has bees in it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the reader senses that Matt's rescuer is kind and that Matt is safe.

2. How does Matt's garden experience prove to be frustrating?

3. How might one evaluate the stories Ben tells of living with the Indians and fighting the French?

4. How does the story of Robinson Crusoe become more than a reading book for Attean and Matt?

5. How does Matt's remark about shooting squirrels remind the reader that Matt is still a child?

6. Compare or contrast Attean and Matt as students.

7. Attean, to say the least, is uncooperative in his first reading lesson. Explain his behavior and the feelings behind this behavior.

8. Why might Attean be so uninterested in learning to read and write the English language?

9. How is Matt's experience of learning how to make a bow different from the other hunting lessons of Attean so far in the story?

10. Why is the absence of the rifle so terrible for Matt?

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