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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Corbel's absence an advantage to Joaquim?
(a) He can work on his herb book.
(b) He can leave the house.
(c) He can relax.
(d) He can be kinder to Birle and Yul.

2. When Birle finally awakens on the ship after being rescued from the rock, what does she discover?
(a) She is in the captain's cabin.
(b) She is still on the rock and the rescue was a dream.
(c) Her entire body is chained.
(d) Her feet are chained.

3. What happened to Joaquim's wife?
(a) He never had a wife.
(b) She drowned.
(c) She was murdered.
(d) She died from a summer fever.

4. What do the nailed hands represent?
(a) The injustice of slavery.
(b) The king's power.
(c) Corbel's power.
(d) Ker and Torson's slave trade.

5. What does Joaquim tell Birle to hope for?
(a) Orien's quick death.
(b) Orien being re-sold elsewhere.
(c) Orien escaping the mines.
(d) Corbel purchasing Orien.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the one woman that Orien loved?

2. What happens at the end of Chapter 19?

3. Who tries to buy Birle first?

4. What does the Lord call Birle every so often?

5. What does Joaquim give Birle?

(see the answer key)

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