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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What benefit would Thurso get for lost cargo?
(a) Insurance payments.
(b) Less people to feed.
(c) Tax write-off.
(d) None.

2. Who does the crew trade with to obtain alcohol?
(a) Black men.
(b) Paris.
(c) The captain.
(d) A group of women.

3. Who takes Calley back to the Ship?
(a) Creek people.
(b) Erasmus.
(c) Susu people.
(d) Daniel and Paris.

4. Who does Paris tell about the bodies that he finds in a shed?
(a) Sarah.
(b) No one.
(c) His wife.
(d) Erasmus.

5. Who would Erasmus be working for if he accepted the job that he was offered?
(a) The government.
(b) The Ship.
(c) Charles.
(d) Barton.

6. How many slaves does Thurso think that he has at the end of Book One, Part Six?
(a) 196.
(b) 75.
(c) 100.
(d) 500.

7. Who is in love with Dinka?
(a) Paris.
(b) Inchebe.
(c) Sefadu.
(d) Tabakali.

8. Why do so many crew members die in Book One, Part Seven?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Fights.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Illness.

9. In Book One, Part Five, who decides to go ashore?
(a) Calley and Erasmus.
(b) Sarah and her father.
(c) Thurso and Barton.
(d) Kemp and Wolpert.

10. Where is the dead boy who was found on the beach buried?
(a) He is not buried. He is cremated.
(b) The ocean.
(c) In the common plot.
(d) Next to his mother.

11. Who leaves the Ship when the men pass out?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Paris.
(c) The slaves.
(d) Calley and Deakin.

12. What is the verdict of the palaver?
(a) There is no verdict.
(b) Not guilty.
(c) Guilty.
(d) It is not clear.

13. Who was the first man to see the abandoned ship?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Robby.
(c) Edward.
(d) Harvey.

14. What do Thurso and the Governor discuss?
(a) The weather.
(b) Their families.
(c) The price of gold.
(d) The prices of slaves.

15. Whose body does Paris find in a shed?
(a) Sarah Wolpert's.
(b) Daniel Calley's.
(c) Mr. Kemp's.
(d) Yellow Henry's.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of effect does Wolpert think that Erasmus has on Sarah?

2. Which of the following weapons kills Deakin?

3. Why is it hard to hear the fiddle aboard the Ship?

4. Why does Erasmus marry a woman in Book Two?

5. Who notices Erasmus' ship in Book Two, Part Nine?

(see the answer keys)

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