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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. When Ngonyama comes to bring Rutherford back on deck after the storm begins, how many passengers does Ngonyama tell Rutherford remain?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

2. After the battle ends, whom do the Allmuseri accuse of being responsible for the brutal ways in which they were treated?
(a) Meadows.
(b) Cringle.
(c) Rutherford.
(d) Falcon.

3. What does Captain Falcon ask Rutherford to give him?
(a) The gun he had given Rutherford.
(b) A knife.
(c) A drink of water.
(d) The magnetic ring he had given Rutherford.

4. How does Rutherford convince the Allmuseri to spare Cringle's life?
(a) He convinces them to make him their slave.
(b) He convinces them that Cringle is their friend.
(c) He convinces him that they need Cringle to read the maps.
(d) He convinces them that only Cringle knows how to repair the ship.

5. How did Cringle wind up as part of the Republic's crew?
(a) He was shanghaied.
(b) He was commissioned after graduating from school.
(c) He volunteered.
(d) He was appointed to it by his father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing that Falcon is concerned with?

2. After going into the water, on what does Rutherford rely to keep him afloat?

3. Whom do Cringle and Rutherford find hiding in a storeroom?

4. What does Rutherford notice about the slaves when they come up from the hold?

5. How does Reverend Chandler dispose of his estate?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the slaves are brought up from the hold, among them is a dead boy. Why does Meadows slice off the boy's ears before throwing the corpse overboard?

2. After Rutherford helps throw the boy's corpse overboard, he is left with a piece of the boy's rotting flesh in his hand. What feeling does this experience leave him with?

3. One night, Cringle tells Rutherford about his father. How does Cringle describe his father's attitude towards money and the rich?

4. Why do the Allmuseri spit at visitors' feet?

5. Captain Falcon tells Rutherford the names of the Republic's three financiers. Who are they?

6. How do the slaves get free?

7. After Rutherford finishes his dinner conversation with Falcon and returns to the deck, he observes Meadows wearing various people's clothes and imitating them while beating the dogs. Why is he doing this?

8. When Cringle decides to begin the mutiny and sends Rutherford to Falcon's cabin, what happens to Fletcher?

9. Diamelo makes up many new rules that favor the Allmuseri and to which the Americans must submit. What winds up being the only one of these rules that is actually followed?

10. Rutherford begins daydreaming about Isadora. What does he see himself doing in his daydream?

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