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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. Where is Matt taken after he is rescued from the bees?
2. How many rooms are in the log cabin that Matt has helped built?
3. How might one characterize the way in which Matt and Attean work together in the forest to create a weapon?
4. When the bees begin to swarm, what does Matt say they sound like?
5. What does Attean make hooks from when Matt loses his fish hook?
Short Essay Questions
1. How might one evaluate the stories Ben tells of living with the Indians and fighting the French?
2. What does Matt reveal in the narration that reveals how sensitive he is to being without a gun?
3. How does Matt intend to deal with his loneliness?
4. Attean, to say the least, is uncooperative in his first reading lesson. Explain his behavior and the feelings behind this behavior.
5. Compare or contrast Attean and Matt as students.
6. Explain why the reader senses that Matt's rescuer is kind and that Matt is safe.
7. Explain how Matt's appetite might be considered the impetus for the action of Chapter 5, when he is attacked by bees?
8. What is Attean's method for retracing his path in the woods that he tries to instill in Matt?
9. How does Matt deal with his disappointment in not hitting the red squirrel that he sets out to kill for food?
10. Explain whether Matt is jealous of Attean's fishing skills.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss whether the conflict of man against man or man against nature is the framework for the basic conflict in The Sign of the Beaver.
Essay Topic 2
In The Sign of the Beaver, Saknis, an older Indian, appears to befriend Matt. In addition to Matt's father's teachings, how is it evident that Saknis is a good and trustworthy person?
Essay Topic 3
Until Matt read Robinson Crusoe to Attean, it was just the story of an adventure. What does Matt himself learn from reading Robinson Crusoe through Attean's eyes? How does the book ultimately become an educational tool for Matt?
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