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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 is the name of the anthropologist aboard the Sisu?

2. Baslim began teaching Thorby to do what?

3. What was more expensive than lot ninety-seven?

4. Where did Auntie tell him that Baslim is?

5. What language does Thorby reveal his message in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Losian a safe planet?

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

3. Describe what Mother Sharum saw the night she helped smuggle Thorby to the shipyard.

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

5. Describe Captain Krausa.

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

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

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

9. Describe lot ninety-seven.

10. What is Baslim trying to teach Thorby using Doctor Renshaw's method?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following to write about.

Part 1) Why did Mother Shaum choose to help Thorby?

Part 2) Why did Chief Office, Mother, from the Sisu send Thorby a large sum of money after Thorby had left?

Part 3) How does Thorby react to large sums of money as compared to the money he received from begging? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Describe the relationship between Thorby and Captain Krausa.

Part 2) How does Thorby's relationship with Captain Krausa differ from the relationship that Thorby had with Baslim?

Part 3) What seems to be Krausa's feelings toward Thorby? What does Kruasa do that shows these feelings?

Essay Topic 3

Baslim didn't tell Thorby of his past or current mission.

Part 1) Speculate on why Baslim didn't tell Thorby the story of his past or the mission.

Part 2) How would Thorby's own story have been different if he had known the truth of what Baslim had been up to and who he was?

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