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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What trade is Ziggie teaching Thorby?
(a) To be a juggler.
(b) To be a pickpocket.
(c) To accost women.
(d) To be a blacksmith.

2. What was the first thing the boy tried to do?
(a) Run away.
(b) Bite the beggar.
(c) Beg the Syndonian.
(d) Hit the beggar.

3. What caused the beggar to believe the boy was not docile?
(a) His clenched hands.
(b) The scars on his back.
(c) His gestures.
(d) His stance.

4. How did Thorby get to the honky-tonk neighborhood?
(a) By sneaking a ride with a compassionate patrolman.
(b) By hailing a cab.
(c) By crawling on rooftops.
(d) By walking the streets in the dark.

5. Who did Thorby tell the gentleman he was?
(a) The son of a poor tailor.
(b) The son of The Merry Widow's master.
(c) The son of Baslim the Cripple.
(d) A poor slave boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does it mean to be "shortened"?

2. What is tattooed on Thorby after his manumission?

3. What art did Baslim learn as a young man?

4. Why did Auntie tell Thorby to hide?

5. What part of the boy made Baslim think he was of unmutated Earth people?

(see the answer key)

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