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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. How do the creatures on Finster trade?

2. Why did Thorby become an actor?

3. What are the products the Traders wanted from Finster?

4. What has Thorby inherited?

5. What does Thorby want to do when he leaves the business?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Weemsby and Bruder want Thorby to sign papers for?

2. What is Thorby heir to?

3. What is Baslim's theory on the slave trade?

4. What makes Woolamurra ideal if Thorby no longer wants to be a trader?

5. What qualifications did it take to be in the Guard?

6. What does Thorby do to hurry the search for his blood family?

7. Who is Thorby identified to be?

8. How were Thorby and his parents lost?

9. At the Gathering what does Captain Krausa discover that changes Thorby's life?

10. What does the judge say after listening to arguments?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Part 1) Describe the role that trade and commerce played in the story.

Part 2) In what ways does the trade and commerce in the story differ from modern day? In what ways is it the same?

Part 3) What can the reader glean from the trade and commerce as it is described in the book?

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Describe Thorby's relationship with his biological family when he is reunited at the end of the story.

Part 2) In what way does this relationship with his biological family compare to the relationship with his two past foster families?

Part 3) What seems to be Thorby's biological family's feelings in regards to Thorby? Explain.

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