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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Entry 9: August 20, 1830.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom do Cringle and Rutherford find hiding in a storeroom?
(a) Squibb.
(b) Tommy.
(c) Baleka and Squibb.
(d) Captain Falcon.

2. When Rutherford finds Mr. Zeringue on board the ship, what event is underway?
(a) Isadora is giving birth to Zeringue's child.
(b) Zeringue and Isadora's wedding rehearsal.
(c) Zeringue and Isadora's wedding reception.
(d) Zeringue and Isadora's wedding.

3. When Rutherford falls while on deck, who comes to help him?
(a) Ngonyama.
(b) Baleka.
(c) Squibb.
(d) Diamelo.

4. During his sob story, how did Rutherford say his mother had died?
(a) Of disease, during passage from Africa.
(b) In bed, of old age.
(c) In childbirth, giving birth to his baby sister.
(d) Of overwork, in the fields of Illinois.

5. What does the ship's boy ask Rutherford what he would prefer?
(a) Boxers or briefs.
(b) White curtains or blue curtains.
(c) A white bedspread or a blue one.
(d) Pajamas or a bathrobe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rutherford admit about his own physical condition?

2. What does the captain tell Rutherford he must do, no matter what happens?

3. After the slave boy's corpse is thrown overboard, what does Ngonyama return to Rutherford?

4. When Rutherford goes back on deck, what does he find himself dreaming of?

5. Captain Ebenezer Falcon has a reputation for being:

(see the answer key)

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