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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did not change even though Baslim acquired another mattress?
(a) Thorby continued to sleep with him.
(b) Thorby continued to sleep under the table.
(c) Thorby continued to sleep in the corner.
(d) Thorby continued to sleep outside.

2. Who financed the beggar to purchase lot ninety-seven?
(a) The auctioneer.
(b) Dwarol the Syndonian.
(c) The alms collector.
(d) The noblewoman on the middle row.

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

4. What is the only clear planet in Thorby's remembrance?
(a) Arkian.
(b) Jubbul.
(c) Losian.
(d) Teritan.

5. What does Thorby want Dr.Mader to tell Mata?
(a) He is sorry he didn't get to see her.
(b) He is sorry he didn't get to say goodbye.
(c) He would have married her.
(d) He is sorry she is going to be gone.

6. What does not necessarily show up in appearance?
(a) Mutations.
(b) Gender.
(c) Descendents.
(d) Race.

7. What ship is Dr. Mader going to go to?
(a) El Cico.
(b) El Nido.
(c) Sisu.
(d) El Nino.

8. What was in his bowl that the gentleman took?
(a) A rock.
(b) A tiny flat cylinder.
(c) A piece of food.
(d) His money.

9. To Thorby what was the time between two sleeps?
(a) A week.
(b) A month.
(c) He has no concept of time.
(d) A day.

10. The boy in the corridor does what to Thorby?
(a) He stops and talks a long time.
(b) He is friendly and helpful.
(c) He gets Thorby something to eat.
(d) He walks by like he does not see him.

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

12. What did Thorby realize Baslim hated?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Debt.
(d) Mean people.

13. What is tattooed on Thorby after his manumission?
(a) A new beggar number.
(b) A line through his slave number, the Sargon's seal, book and page number of his freedom
(c) A new free man's i.d.
(d) A union number.

14. What is manumission?
(a) The process to go to university.
(b) The process to become a beggar.
(c) The process needed to board a ship.
(d) The process to free a slave.

15. What art did Baslim learn as a young man?
(a) Origami.
(b) Karate.
(c) Personal reflextion.
(d) Hypnosis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Baslim the Cripple?

2. What did Thorby do to conceal himself from the patrolmen?

3. What was the first thing the boy tried to do?

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

5. What was lot ninety-six?

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