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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Bight of Benin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jessie do to earn money?
(a) Dances.
(b) Does odd chores.
(c) Sings.
(d) Plays a fife.

2. What is the Captain's last name?
(a) Hayburn.
(b) Cawthorne.
(c) Hawthorne.
(d) Crayburn.

3. Who takes Jessie to see the Captain?
(a) Benjamin.
(b) Purvis.
(c) Claudias.
(d) Stout.

4. What is the only pretty thing in Jessie's house?
(a) A porcelain doll.
(b) A wedding picture of his parents.
(c) His sister.
(d) A basket of thread.

5. What does Jessie notice in the galley after the wind dies?
(a) Stacks of wooden bowls.
(b) A huge cauldron.
(c) A large barrel of coffee grinds.
(d) Chains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stout get angry about after the wind dies?

2. How many homes were destroyed by the fire Jessie saw when he was little?

3. Which ration does the captain cut for the crew when the wind dies?

4. Why is Jessie comforted by a cockroach in his hammock?

5. What has Jessie's mother told him to stay away from?

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