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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. What are the pests that most often annoy Matt?
2. How does Matt know that the stranger intends to stay the night?
3. What is the "old blunderbuss" Matt's father speaks of?
4. How long does Matt estimate that it will take Attean to learn his lessons?
5. What is held in the keg that was overturned?
Short Essay Questions
1. How dies Matt discover that he can overcome his loneliness?
2. Attean, to say the least, is uncooperative in his first reading lesson. Explain his behavior and the feelings behind this behavior.
3. How might one evaluate the stories Ben tells of living with the Indians and fighting the French?
4. Explain why the reader senses that Matt's rescuer is kind and that Matt is safe.
5. Matt wakes in the morning dreading the task of teaching Attean to read. Explain the reason for this dread and whether it is justified.
6. How is Matt more apt to question slavery now when reading with Attean and never before?
7. How does the story of Robinson Crusoe become more than a reading book for Attean and Matt?
8. Explain whether Matt is jealous of Attean's fishing skills.
9. Why is the absence of the rifle so terrible for Matt?
10. How does Matt's remark about shooting squirrels remind the reader that Matt is still a child?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the role of women in Attean's village? What does Attean say about women that help the reader understand his view of women in a community?
Essay Topic 2
In the beginning of The Sign of the Beaver when Attean and Matt first meet, they are boys who are the same age and of very different cultures. In terms of their early relationship, that is until Attean becomes a man, compare and contrast these two young men.
Essay Topic 3
In Matt's cabin, in addition to Robinson Crusoe, he also has the Bible. When Matt retells Attean a story from the Bible, Attean accepts it much better than the Robinson Crusoe story. What is it about the story of Noah's Ark that is ultimately more acceptable to Attean?
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