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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 an expenditure of the business?

2. What did the judge declare?

3. What is Colonel Bisby's Executive Officer Vice Colonel's nickname?

4. What has the finest shipyards in the explored Galaxy?

5. What happened to Grandmother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What business does Thorby attend after leaving the counselor's office?

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

3. Who is Thorby identified to be?

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

5. What is the history of the Sisu?

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

7. How were Thorby and his parents lost?

8. What is the Gathering?

9. What does Thorby learn about Baslim?

10. Describe Leda.

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

There are several different characters that help Thorby out in different regards throughout the story.

Part 1) Compare the role of men in the story to the role of women in terms of how Thorby perceives them.

Part 2) Why are Baslim and Grandmother the only two Thorby is inspired by at the end of the story to continue his quest to end slavery?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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