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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. When Attean appears with paint on his skin, what does Matt think?
2. Who goes with Matt to rescue the dog?
3. When Matt hears of the atrocities that take place here in this territory, who does he think of and fear for?
4. Before Attean leaves Matt, what gift does Attean give Matt?
5. When Attean visits Matt after his manitou, who accompanies him?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Matt and Attean's use of each other's language symbolic of their relationship?
2. When Attean takes Matt around to see the Indian women working, why is this work of such interest to Matt and of little interest to Attean?
3. Why is it ironic that Matt wonders how the Great Spirit that the Indians worship seem to be like the Indians themselves--i.e. a mighty hunter, very strong?
4. How does the celebration of the bear kill at Attean's village actually work to lessen friction over cultural differences?
5. Attean tells Matt that it is the white man who introduced metal traps to the Indians. What does the trap symbolize to Attean?
6. What is the conflict Matt faces when Saknis invites him to come along on the hunt with his people as Attean's brother?
7. How does such a violent act as killing a bear bring Matt and Attean into a relationship that for the first time seems like a friendship?
8. How does Matt's reaction to the cleanup being relegated to squaws indicate that he is more accepting of cultural differences?
9. Matt gets considerable reassurance of his acceptance in Chapter 22 when Attean renews his invitation to Matt to join them to find a new hunting ground. How does Matt's response please and simultaneously disappoint Attean?
10. Even though they are husband and wife, why do Saknis's feelings about the white man differ from the feelings of Attean's grandmother?
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
At one point, both Saknis and Attean call Matt the white brother of Attean. Why is this term "brother" used by them here? How is being named a "brother" different than being called a "friend"? Why do they come to think Matt deserves this name?
Essay Topic 3
There are four instances in the book that deal with metal traps--early on there is Ben and his trapping for furs; there is Attean explaining how they cannot take the fox from a trap on another tribe's hunting ground; there is releasing the dog from the metal trap. How do these traps and rules around them illustrate the conflict between the white man and the Indian and each other's rules?
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