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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 was the name of the captain aboard "The Ghanjee"?

2. How many people could fit into the big top to watch the Wunderzircus?

3. How large was the container that held Emma's mixture of oats, barley, and molasses?

4. What other elephants were in the hold with Mo?

5. What was the hospital building used for at one time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kelly help Bram?

2. What did the hospital look like where Bram awoke after the shipwreck?

3. Why weren't any lifeboats launched from "The Ghanjee"?

4. Why was the cemetery where Josef buried called the Grenchin Hill Cemetery?

5. Describe Gertie's dance atop Modoc.

6. Who was Atoul?

7. Describe the bull hook that Bram's father gave him when Bram was thirteen.

8. How did Bram get on board "The Ghanjee"?

9. What did the maharajah order to be made for Bram when he wanted to stay with Mo?

10. What system was established after Mo found the survivors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Gertie's feelings for Bram and how they changed throughout the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Bram struggled with feelings of guilt and whether these feelings were due to a real or imagined moral code that Bram felt he had broken.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss life in Mayaua and how it changed when Bram and Mo came. Were these changes permanent?

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