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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Auntie tell him that Baslim is?

2. Who is the first person on the Sisu to speak to Thorby?

3. What does Dr.Mader think of the People's freedom?

4. Thorby is promoted to what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mata traded to the El Nido?

2. What does the beggar do with the boy when he gets to his home?

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

4. What does the policeman reveal in his conversation with Auntie Singham?

5. What was some unspoken rules that Thorby kept?

6. What is Dr.Mader's opinion of The People's freedom?

7. Who bought lot ninety-seven, and how?

8. How was Thorby smuggled to the shipyards?

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

10. Why does Thorby's thigh hurt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe the roles of the men versus the roles of the women in the Free Trader culture.

Part 2) Is there any indication who is the true ruler of the house--men or women--in the Free Trader culture? Is it possible that neither is necessarily the end authority?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) What is the reason that Thorby doesn't think as highly of Captain Krausa as he did Baslim? Is there any indication that Krausa didn't treat Thorby as his own child?

Part 2) Did Baslim mean for Krausa to have taken Baslim in as his adopted son? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Education is highly enforced by Baslim in the story.

Part 1) What is the reason that Baslim pushes Thorby so hard to be educated?

Part 2) How would the story have differed had Baslim had no education?

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