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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. After the storm passes, what about Ngonyama sets him apart from all the others on board the ship?
(a) He is completely dry.
(b) He is naked.
(c) He is wearing a life jacket.
(d) He is encased in ice.

2. Where did freedman Rutherford Calhoun work when he was a slave?
(a) As a house slave.
(b) In the gardens.
(c) In the corn fields.
(d) In the cotton fields.

3. The sailor that Rutherford meets in Entry 1 is taking the position of ____________ aboard Captain Falcon's ship.
(a) Quartermaster.
(b) Cook.
(c) First Mate.
(d) Boatswain.

4. Who is appointed captain once Falcon is out of the way?
(a) McGaffin.
(b) Squibb.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Cringle.

5. The next time Rutherford talks to Falcon, what does Falcon tell him he plans to do with the Allmuseri once they reach land?
(a) Kill them.
(b) Keep them for himself.
(c) Set them free.
(d) Sell them.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Rutherford want to learn more?

2. What does Captain Falcon catch Rutherford doing one night?

3. What does Cringle have a sixth sense about?

4. When he arrives in New Orleans, where does Rutherford try, but fail, to find work?

5. Captain Falcon tells Rutherford that the cargo they will pick up at Bangalang includes forty ______________ tribes people.

Short Essay Questions

1. In what languages does Captain Falcon think simultaneously?

2. Why, although it is against his better judgment, does Rutherford steal Squibb's work papers?

3. As Cringle is taking Rutherford to meet the captain, Rutherford gives Cringle his real reasons for boarding the ship. What are they?

4. When Rutherford is awakened by Cringle and other members of the Republic's crew, why is he so quick to obey Cringle when he orders him to his feet?

5. After the storm dies down, what does Matthew McGaffin accuse Cringle of?

6. What does Rutherford say about using sob stories in situations such as his first meeting with Captain Falcon?

7. When Falcon begins telling Rutherford intimate details about his crew, what does Rutherford decide the captain's motives for doing so must be?

8. What kind of man does Rutherford see portrayed in Captain Falcon's journal entries?

9. On the day Rutherford meets Baleka and her mother, he throws Baleka a biscuit. What is her mother's response?

10. As the Republic leaves the African coast, to what does Rutherford attribute the uneasiness he senses in Captain Falcon?

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