The Sign of the Beaver

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key plot points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. Who does Matt fear while living alone in his cabin?

2. Who spends the night at Matt’s cabin and then steals from him?

3. What does Matt lose that his father entrusted to him?

4. What’s the one food Matt knows he can successfully obtain in the woods?

5. What food does Matt try to obtain that nearly gets him killed?

Short Answer

Answer each question with at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What method does Matt use to track the passing days?

2. Who (or what) ransacks Matt’s cabin, and how does it happen?

3. Whom does Matt meet in the woods while hunting for food, and how does he meet them?

Chapters 6-15

Reading Check

1. What’s the first book Matt reads to Attean?

2. Which animal sign marks the territory of Attean’s people?

3. Attean offers Matt a replacement for his lost rifle. What is it?

4. What’s the second book Matt reads to Attean?

5. Attean’s people have a myth about a great flood. Who is this myth’s hero?

6. What animal do Attean and Matt fight in the forest?

Short Answer

Answer each question with at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.