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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many siblings did Amanda have?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

2. How many days and nights was Jonah inside the whale?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

3. Who was Gericault's assistant who lived with him?
(a) Jean Pucelle.
(b) Ligier Richier.
(c) Louis-Alexis Jamar.
(d) Villard de Honnecourt.

4. At what altitude was the city of Arghuri?
(a) 5,500 feet.
(b) About 7,000 feet.
(c) 8,100 feet.
(d) More than 6,000 feet.

5. The subjects of what king found the vestiges of the raft that the frigate survivors constructed?
(a) King Zaide.
(b) King Pontus.
(c) King Rayde.
(d) King Donatus.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what ship did James Bartley work as a sailor?

2. What does Lawrence's daughter feed him?

3. How many people lived in the town that Jonah went to preach to according to Barnes?

4. How many people sailed on the expedition?

5. After how many days did some of the survivors who stayed on the frigate decide to strike out on a raft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Amanda say about the practice of placing teeth in a crevice of the door of a church?

2. What does the the narrator wish to celebrate instead of 1492 and why?

3. Who finally agreed to take passengers from the St. Louis?

4. What does Charlie learn about the words one of the Indians has been teaching him?

5. Describe the Monastery of Saint James.

6. Why was it decided after the seventh day that the sick should be killed?

7. When a violent storm blew up while Jonah was traveling by ship, how did the mariners decide that Jonah was the cause of the storm?

8. What happens on Thursday when the crew are filming?

9. Where should the words "I love you," be kept and why?

10. What is different about the way the couple sleeps in "Parenthesis"?

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