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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Thorby's mentor?
(a) Captain Krause.
(b) Jeri Kingsolver.
(c) Chelan Krausa-Drotar.
(d) Dr. Mader.

2. What does it mean to be "shortened"?
(a) Your legs cut off.
(b) Placed on the rack.
(c) Your head cut off and placed on a stake.
(d) Drawn and quartered.

3. What is the name of the anthropologist aboard the Sisu?
(a) Dr. JoElla Allen.
(b) Dr. Margaret Mader.
(c) Dr. Mary Krausa
(d) Dr. Maggie Mcdowell.

4. Where did Auntie tell him that Baslim is?
(a) Dead.
(b) Around the corner.
(c) In hiding.
(d) In jail.

5. What did Thorby buy from Inga?
(a) A starfruit.
(b) An apple.
(c) A melon.
(d) A bellfruit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Thorby go to hide from the patrolmen?

2. What did the school master report to the ship's captain concerning Thorby?

3. What is the only thing Baslim possessed upon his death?

4. What was the name of the ship that brought Thorby to the slave auction?

5. What did not change even though Baslim acquired another mattress?

(see the answer key)

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