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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. What game did Mata want Thorby to play before dinner?

2. What did Auntie call the patrolmen?

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

4. Why did Thorby think his home was raided?

5. What did Baslim ask of Captain Krausa?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Baslim dislike hypnosis?

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

3. Describe Captain Krausa.

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

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

6. Describe lot ninety-seven.

7. Once outside in the hallways of the ship what does Thorby discover?

8. What does the captain do for Thorby?

9. What did Thorby learn of the begging trade?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Baslim chose to commit suicide rather than be questioned.

Part 1) What does it reveal about Baslim that he would rather take poison than be questioned by the police?

Part 2) Why did the police choose to 'shorten' Baslim even though he was already dead?

Essay Topic 2

Mata showed Thorby attention he did not notice and Thorby was being unwittingly set up with two other females in the book.

Part 1) What does it show about Thorby that he never noticed that these matches were being made?

Part 2) What does it reveal to the reader about Thorby's feelings about these girls that he didn't perceive what was going on?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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