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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. Why did the chair bearers say nothing?
(a) They had no tongues.
(b) They are robots.
(c) They are indifferent.
(d) They are deaf.

2. What did Baslim ask of Captain Krausa?
(a) Send Thorby to university.
(b) Help Thorby get to the country.
(c) Make Thorby a deckhand.
(d) Entrusts Thorby into his care.

3. How did Thorby open the door?
(a) By calling out loudly until someone heard him.
(b) By running his hands over the wall panels.
(c) By using the door handle.
(d) By placing his thumb in a thumbscan.

4. Where did Thorby sleep?
(a) In the wall.
(b) On the floor.
(c) On the windowseat.
(d) In his bunk.

5. What is the slave boy's name?
(a) John.
(b) Jordy.
(c) Tomby.
(d) Thorby.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Auntie call the patrolmen?

2. What did the captain hide Thorby in to get him aboard ship?

3. What caused the beggar to believe the boy was not docile?

4. What did Baslim have the slave boy do first?

5. To Thorby, Earth is a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Thorby smuggled to the shipyards?

2. Describe Thorby's room on board the Sisu.

3. After an argument, Thorby is gone for days. What does he discover upon his return?

4. What does fraki mean?

5. What news does Thorby receive when seeing the fortune teller on Joy Street?

6. How does the beggar get the boy home to his hole?

7. What message does Thorby give to the captain, and how is it believable?

8. In the ship's school what is the subject Thorby excelled at?

9. Who does "the man" turn out to be?

10. What is Joy Street?

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