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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. What does Saknis make for Matt that is made of wood?
(a) A slingshot.
(b) A footstool.
(c) A ladder.
(d) A crutch.
2. What is the reason for the oil that Attean spreads on his body and hair?
(a) It is supposed to repel insects.
(b) It is from his breakfast of greasy meat.
(c) It is a spring Indian ritual.
(d) It is from a sacred ceremony that morning.
3. What is the sweet ingredient that Matt that is disappearing because he uses it a lot?
(a) Molasses.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Honey.
(d) Corn syrup.
4. When the man asks whether Matt is alone at the camp site, how does Matt respond?
(a) That he is alone, but his family should be there any minute.
(b) That his father is away just now.
(c) That it is note of his business.
(d) That he is alone.
5. Who bakes the johnnycake that Matt eats after hunting?
(a) Matt.
(b) Matt's father.
(c) Matt's mother.
(d) A local Indian.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the stranger say about the quality of the construction of Matt's cabin?
2. How many rooms are in the log cabin that Matt has helped built?
3. What does the stranger admire and say that is "worth a passel of beaver"?
4. What does Matt still have a few grains of in a tin after the break in?
5. What kind of trees are used to build their cabin?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Matt blame himself for the bear's intrusion into his cabin?
2. How does Matt's father's teachings help Matt when he is alone?
3. How does Matt deal with his disappointment in not hitting the red squirrel that he sets out to kill for food?
4. How does the story of Robinson Crusoe become more than a reading book for Attean and Matt?
5. How does Matt's garden experience prove to be frustrating?
6. Looking back to how Matt first meets the man who calls himself Ben, what is Matt's first mistake regarding this man?
7. In Chapter 11, the reader comes upon the explanation of the title of the novel, "the sign of the beaver." What is the sign of the beaver?
8. Despite Matt's gun being gone, what is happens in Chapter 4 that suggests that Matt is in good spirits?
9. Why might one argue that Matt underestimates the danger the bees could cause him when he is planning to get some honey?
10. 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?
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