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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. How long had the head elephant trainer worked for Mr. North?

2. What did Ralph change the name of his ranch to?

3. What was the name of the trapeze artists in the North Circus?

4. How many of the elephants in North's circus were males?

5. How many elephants were in recovery after the guerrilla battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What judgment did Kalli Gooma say about Bram's test he took to become a mahout?

2. What happened to the sideshow people after the North Circus shut down?

3. Why did the man who attacked and blinded Mo turn to alcohol?

4. Why were Mo and other elephants at the North Circus sick in Chapter 35?

5. What realization did Bram have when he went to Sian's grave one last time?

6. Why did Jagrat have Bram meet him by the lake?

7. Why was a man arrested in Sian's village?

8. How did Sian die?

9. How did Modoc travel to the ship that transported her to America?

10. What did Bram observe when he awoke in Chapter 31?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the people in the sideshow and how their handicaps affected their lives.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, discuss who did and did not survive the shipwreck. Did the location of individuals during the shipwreck determine whether they lived or died?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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