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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. Who is "Papa"?
2. When Rutherford sees the Allmuseri, what tribe does he describe them as taller than?
3. When the Republic begins its return trip to New Orleans, what does it encounter?
4. How does Rutherford assume Falcon obtained the souvenirs in his cabin?
5. When McGaffin notices the ring that Rutherford is wearing, how does Rutherford say he got it from Captain Falcon?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Falcon returns to his cabin and finds Rutherford there, he tells Rutherford that he has to defend himself against six men. What weapon does Falcon use?
2. What did Falcon grow up determined to do with his life?
3. The night Rutherford meets with Zeringue, he finds that he owes Zeringue 50,000 francs. He also learns that Zeringue and Isadora have made a deal regarding his debt with Zeringue. What are the details of this deal?
4. When Cringle is appointed to become captain once Falcon is out of the way, what does he promise the crew?
5. How does Cringle compare jail and being a crew member aboard a ship?
6. As the Republic leaves the African coast, to what does Rutherford attribute the uneasiness he senses in Captain Falcon?
7. Why, although it is against his better judgment, does Rutherford steal Squibb's work papers?
8. 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?
9. When Falcon begins telling Rutherford intimate details about his crew, what does Rutherford decide the captain's motives for doing so must be?
10. As Cringle is taking Rutherford to meet the captain, Rutherford gives Cringle his real reasons for boarding the ship. What are they?
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
Using the text as backup, analyze how Cringle's lifelong quest to please his father has destroyed him emotionally and psychologically, and explain how Cringle's physical condition in Entry 7 is used by the author to symbolize his internal devastation.
Essay Topic 3
Perhaps the most prevalent themes in Middle Passage are those of deception, blackmail, and stealing. Choose one of the following characters and demonstrate, backing up your arguments from the book, how these themes were evidenced in the character's behavior:
1) Isadora
2) Zeringue
3) Ngonyama
4) Squibb
5) Diamelo
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