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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why do the Allmuseri require no medication?
2. How much water do the Allmuseri have in the hold where they are they are kept?
3. Why does Squibb walk with a limp?
4. Isadora's terms leave Rutherford so afraid that he is afflicted for several hours with bouts of _________________.
5. After talking with Isadora and Mr. Zeringue, where does Rutherford go that turns out to be filled with sailors?
Short Essay Questions
1. On the day Rutherford meets Baleka and her mother, he throws Baleka a biscuit. What is her mother's response?
2. After the mutiny conference when Rutherford brings Captain Falcon his dinner, what does he say to the captain when asked for a report on the activities of the crew?
3. As the Republic leaves the African coast, to what does Rutherford attribute the uneasiness he senses in Captain Falcon?
4. Rutherford's first excuse for coming aboard the ship is that he is Squibb and is ready to work. What is his second excuse, after Cringle tells him that Squibb is on board?
5. As Rutherford learns more about the Republic from Cringle, he finds it is a typical ship. What, according to Rutherford, is a "typical ship"?
6. When Falcon begins telling Rutherford intimate details about his crew, what does Rutherford decide the captain's motives for doing so must be?
7. What ability does Rutherford lose while at sea?
8. What tendency of Rutherford's can Reverend Chandler do nothing to stifle?
9. In what languages does Captain Falcon think simultaneously?
10. How does Rutherford describe Captain Falcon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast Isadora's and Rutherford's personalities, and explain why the differences in their personalities made their attraction to each other so powerful. Back up your arguments with examples from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Slavery also figured highly in the lives of all characters in Middle Passage, not just in the lives of the Allmuseri. Using the text as your backup, choose one of the following characters, and explain how and by what he or she was enslaved.
1) Captain Falcon
2) Rutherford
3) Isadora
4) Zeringue
5) Squibb
6) Nathaniel Meadows
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and explain how the events that took place during the voyage to and from Bangalang cause Rutherford to move from resistance to, to willingness to, marry Isadora. Back up your argument with proof from the text.
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