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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The novel's prologue depicts a group of men aboard a ship with what name?
(a) The Unsinkable.
(b) The Unspeakable.
(c) The Unpredictable.
(d) The Impeccable.

2. What is NOT a subject Lorimer says he had studied in college?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Biology.
(d) Botany.

3. At what point in Lorimer's life had he moved to America?
(a) In his infancy.
(b) In his boyhood.
(c) In his adulthood.
(d) In his adolescence.

4. When Håkan begins to pay attention to the conversations happening aboard the ship, he names which element as common to them all?
(a) Timber.
(b) Gold.
(c) Silver.
(d) Coal.

5. The men in the prologue are aboard what type of ship?
(a) A passenger schooner.
(b) A passenger liner.
(c) A commercial liner.
(d) A freight schooner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Håkan lose "in a matter of days" (22)?

2. Håkan and his brother Linus use what type of abandoned structures as places to play?

3. In what kind of landscape is Håkan wandering after he escapes from Clangston?

4. The first ship boarded by Linus and Håkan is on its way to what location?

5. In what location does Håkan lose track of his brother Linus?

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