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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 language does Thorby give Colonel Bisby's message in?

2. What are Thorby's blood parents names?

3. What is a skill Thorby believes will be beneficial to the Guard?

4. What is the goal of the "X" Corps?

5. Why was Thorby's acting rank stricken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thorby learn about Baslim?

2. Describe Leda.

3. What is Thorby's plan to escape his family bodyguards?

4. What is Thorby's idea concerning the investigation of the slave trade?

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

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

7. Describe the method of trading on Finster.

8. What is the Gathering?

9. What is Thorby heir to?

10. What leads Captain Bisby to discover who Thoby's blood relatives are?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thorby's uncle has Thorby and Leda followed and most of the house where Thorby is staying is bugged.

Part 1) Does this seem excessive? Explain why or why not and to what degree it seems excessive.

Part 2) What does it show about Uncle John's character to know that he has had everywhere bugged?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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