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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Delblanc's profession?
(a) Business owner.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Attorney.
(d) Artist.

2. What does Erasmus find when he goes to find his father?
(a) That he is trading illegally.
(b) That he is working late.
(c) That he is having an affair.
(d) That he has hung himself.

3. Who is the first person whom Erasmus tells about his father's death?
(a) Mrs. Adams.
(b) Mrs. Paris.
(c) Mrs. Kemp.
(d) Mrs. Wolpert.

4. Whose portrait has Delblanc painted?
(a) Thurso's.
(b) His own.
(c) The Governor's.
(d) The British Queen's.

5. Who is fitted with leg irons on the Ship?
(a) Calley.
(b) Paris.
(c) Haines.
(d) Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the crew trade with to obtain alcohol?

2. What is the sacred hunger?

3. Who takes Calley back to the Ship?

4. Whose secret meeting does Erasmus attend in Book Two?

5. What does Erasmus find aboard the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Kemp change after her husband's death?

2. Explain "the sacred hunger". What is the narrator referring to by using that phrase?

3. Tell the story about the monkey that Cavana buys on the ship. What is the monkey's fate?

4. What decision does Erasmus make in Book One, Part Seven, following his father's death?

5. What is the relationship between Delblanc and Paris like in Book One, Part Six?

6. What sort of effect does Wolpert realize Erasmus has on Sarah?

7. Describe the story of the trees as told by Paris and Kenka.

8. What problems do you foresee in the potential relationship between Erasmus and Sarah?

9. Describe Thurso's life prior to being a ship captain.

10. Why does Mrs. Kemp deny that her husband committed suicide?

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