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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. What does Rutherford notice about the slaves when they come up from the hold?
2. Reverend Chandler tells Jackson and Rutherford they are ____________.
3. Who becomes the unofficial ship's doctor?
4. On what date did Rutherford's father try to escape?
5. Before Reverend Chandler said how he would dispose of his estate, Jackson had already stated that he would not accept a gift of land or property. What is Rutherford's opinion of his brother's statement?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the Republic breaks apart, what does Squibb do?
2. When Rutherford enters the captain's quarters, he finds it in ruins and the captain badly hurt by falling beams. What, due to his injuries, is the captain no longer able to control?
3. 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?
4. What is the attitude and behavior of Diamelo, one of the Allmuseri men who led the rebellion, towards the Americans?
5. How do the slaves get free?
6. 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?
7. Rutherford tells Squibb about his brother and master. What reason does he give for Rev. Chandler deciding to keep him and Jackson, his brother, after Chandler inherited them from their father?
8. When Cringle decides to begin the mutiny and sends Rutherford to Falcon's cabin, what happens to Fletcher?
9. Rutherford begins daydreaming about Isadora. What does he see himself doing in his daydream?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Using the text as backup, compare and contrast Rutherford's and Captain Falcon's personalities, particularly their individual approaches towards honesty and ability to trust, and explain how the relationship that develops between them plays a role in the development of the novel.
Essay Topic 3
In an essay, explain and analyze how the Republic's state of constant disrepair symbolizes the deterioration of the crew's relationship with Captain Falcon. Use examples from the text.
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