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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 Matt asks Attean to show him how to kill a rabbit, what is it that piqued his interest in learning to hunt as Attean?
(a) How he caught such a large rabbit.
(b) How Attean's rabbit was killed without a hole in it.
(c) Saknis's bragging about his grandson's hunting skills.
(d) Attean's bragging about his hunting skills.

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

3. What is the first thing Matt prepares to teach Attean?
(a) How to do simple addition.
(b) Common English words.
(c) How to write numbers.
(d) The alphabet.

4. What does Matt try to salvage after the break-in that is now mixed with dirt?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Cornmeal.
(c) Flour.
(d) Salt.

5. How often is Matt instructed to cut a notch in the stick?
(a) Twice a week.
(b) Once a day.
(c) Twice a day.
(d) Once a week.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main source of Matt's frustration with gardening?

2. When Attean invites Matt to go fishing, what does Attean stop on the way to make?

3. How might one characterize the way in which Matt and Attean work together in the forest to create a weapon?

4. Why does Matt decide that the cause of the break-in couldn't be Indians?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Looking back to how Matt first meets the man who calls himself Ben, what is Matt's first mistake regarding this man?

2. What is Attean's method for retracing his path in the woods that he tries to instill in Matt?

3. Characterize the relationship that develops between Saknis and Matt.

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

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

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

7. Matt wakes in the morning dreading the task of teaching Attean to read. Explain the reason for this dread and whether it is justified.

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

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

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

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