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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the captain use to change the ship's nationality when needed?
(a) Foreign flags.
(b) A fake translator.
(c) Different accents.
(d) Clothing in different styles.

2. What does Jessie want to be when he gets older?
(a) A grocer.
(b) A banker.
(c) A slaver.
(d) A chandler.

3. How many homes were destroyed by the fire Jessie saw when he was little?
(a) 177.
(b) 107.
(c) 207.
(d) 77.

4. What does Jessie want to watch the cook do?
(a) Knead dough.
(b) Percolate coffee.
(c) Pluck a chicken.
(d) Butcher a cow.

5. What is the name of the man who paid Jessie earlier in the day?
(a) Claudius.
(b) Clem.
(c) Christopher.
(d) Christian.

6. What does Spark do when Sharkey gets drunk?
(a) Locks him in the hold.
(b) Throws him overboard.
(c) Whips him.
(d) Kicks his head.

7. What is the first question Jessie was asked on the ship?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) What his name was.
(c) What he knew about ships.
(d) How old he was.

8. What does Jessie want the cook to give him when the wind dies?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Fruit.
(c) Beer.
(d) Water.

9. What was the name of the slave who shooed Jessie away from a window?
(a) Sky.
(b) Sun.
(c) Moon.
(d) Star.

10. What does Jessie say being at sea makes a man think about?
(a) God.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) The future.

11. How old was Jessie when his father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 6.

12. What stops the quarreling on the ship while in the Bight of Benin?
(a) A gun fired by Spark.
(b) Jessie's song on the fife.
(c) The first boatlad of ships.
(d) A full moon.

13. What pains Jessie about being away from his mother?
(a) He can't help pay the bills.
(b) He can't protect her.
(c) She thinks he's dead.
(d) He never got to say goodbye.

14. What is the name of the ship Jessie is taken to?
(a) The Midnight.
(b) The Moonlight.
(c) The Star.
(d) The North Star.

15. What is Jessie taken away in?
(a) A canvas sack.
(b) A sail.
(c) A barrel.
(d) A potato sack.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jessie decide to take the longest way home?

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

3. Where is Jessie's bed on the ship?

4. Where does Jessie live at the beginning of the book?

5. What does Jessie say really provides for his family?

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