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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Dencey's formal name?
(a) Diana.
(b) Dionis.
(c) Deirdre.
(d) Dionysus.
2. What name is given to the boys who torment Dencey on the street?
(a) Fragmenters.
(b) Freedmen.
(c) Rabble Rousers.
(d) Hellians.
3. Why does Tom come home earlier than expected from the whaling trip?
(a) The ship was mangled in a storm.
(b) He decided he needed to be with his family.
(c) Most of the men were sick and dying of dysentery.
(d) They came upon a school of whales and killed their capacity.
4. What happens to the baby of the man who died on the ship?
(a) He dies.
(b) He gets malaria.
(c) He develops heart trouble.
(d) He is kidnapped.
5. What does Sammie drop when Dencey throws a rock at him?
(a) A basket of eggs.
(b) School books.
(c) Lunch pail.
(d) Marble pouch.
Short Answer Questions
1. What causes a rift between Tom and his father?
2. The ground of Nantucket is primarily _______________.
3. What names does Sammie Jetsam call Dencey?
4. Why can Lydia not marry Tom?
5. Why does Tom begin to attend many Quaker meetings?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the Coffyn family move? Why do they like it, especially Dencey?
2. What is the family's response to Tom's homecoming, and what shock is in store for Tom regarding the size of his family now?
3. How do Lydia and Tom greet each other even though Lydia had been almost despondent without her husband?
4. Why can Dencey not go to school after the rock throwing, and where does she decide to go?
5. What role does Elias,Tom's father, take on in the household? What does he do that scares Dencey?
6. What disheartening news does Lydia receive in a letter from Tom?
7. What objects which Tom brings home does Dencey especially like? Why does her mother chastise her admiration of them?
8. What does Dencey think about as she sits in her room?
9. What does Tom do in order to marry Lydia?
10. What are the circumstances that make Dencey angry enough to throw a rock at Sammie Jetsam?
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