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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. How many arrows does Attean use to kill the bear?
2. On this early autumn visit to Matt's cabin, what does Attean tell Matt the Indian men are preparing to hunt?
3. Seconds before Matt and Attean encounter the bear, what makes Attean first sense danger?
4. At the celebration, what story does Attean tell to the villagers that are assembled?
5. When Attean visits Matt after his manitou, who accompanies him?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When Matt comes upon the Attean's dog in the trap, he knows he is in the land of the turtle and should not tamper with anything there. Why does he knowingly go against the law that Attean taught him?
3. In spite of Attean not being in high spirits, he visits Matt shortly before his manitou. What is the significance of this visit at this time?
4. What is Matt's reaction to Attean's explanation of his grandmother's hatred of white men?
5. What is the conflict Matt faces when Saknis invites him to come along on the hunt with his people as Attean's brother?
6. 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?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. How is Matt's acceptance of the manitou indicative of his growing respect for the Indian culture?
10. When Attean comes to say farewell, why does Matt to give Attean his father's watch and not the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The road to friendship is a gradual sometimes--especially when there is mistrust and resentment. How does Matt overcome his mistrust of Attean? How does Attean overcome his resentment of white people?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The Sign of the Beaver certainly explores the plight of the native Americans. Yet there is much the reader learns about "the white man" from Attean. What image of the white frontiersmen emerges from this novel? In other words, how does the image of the white man that Attean speaks of compare or contrast to the actual white men (such as Matt, his father, and briefly, Ben) the reader encounters in the story?
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