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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entry 9: August 20, 1830.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main thing that Rutherford notices about the Republic?
(a) The absence of civility and manners.
(b) The absence of women.
(c) The stench and filthiness below deck.
(d) The lack of proper safety equipment.

2. What did Reverend Chandler, Rutherford's master, try to teach him while he was growing up on the plantation?
(a) Financial prudence and honesty.
(b) Penmanship.
(c) Penmanship and Biblical virtues.
(d) Biblical virtues.

3. Cringle's correct speech is taken as ________, and the captain interprets his sensitivity as ___________.
(a) Arrogance; weakness.
(b) Weakness; arrogance.
(c) Snobbishness; prissiness.
(d) Prissiness; weakness.

4. In describing the Allmuseri language, Rutherford says the sounds they produce are like:
(a) The sound of birds chattering at dawn.
(b) Deep, melodious breaths.
(c) The rush of wind through the trees.
(d) Nails on a chalkboard.

5. When he arrives in New Orleans, where does Rutherford try, but fail, to find work?
(a) Restaurants and the shipyard..
(b) Negro bars.
(c) Salons and negro bars.
(d) Salons.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Meadows and Ngonyama carry a slave boy's corpse from below, what body part(s) does Meadows cut off before the corpse is thrown overboard?

2. The next time Rutherford talks to Falcon, what does Falcon tell him he plans to do with the Allmuseri once they reach land?

3. What does Cringle tell Rutherford about seeing and hearing the cabin boy in Falcon's quarters?

4. When the mate named Fletcher comes into the meeting room, what news does he have for the mutineers?

5. What does Cringle tell Rutherford that Falcon watches for in each crew member?

(see the answer key)

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