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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 trade is Ziggie teaching Thorby?

2. Who is Baslim the Cripple?

3. What part of the boy made Baslim think he was of unmutated Earth people?

4. To Thorby, Earth is a what?

5. Who witnessed the adoption?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Thorby learn of the begging trade?

2. What are Thorby's sleeping habits?

3. How was Thorby smuggled to the shipyards?

4. What does fraki mean?

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

6. What was some unspoken rules that Thorby kept?

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

8. What happened that Thorby wanted to be seen?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Grandmother is a very strong figure although she is seen for a limited time.

Part 1) How does Grandmother's role for Thorby change for him from the first time he stepped on the ship to when Grandmother dies?

Part 2) Describe Grandmother's personality. Is there any indication that she truly cares for Thorby? Explain.

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