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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 - 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nailer feel as he propels himself out of the water?
(a) Disgust.
(b) Fondness for all the things going on in his little world.
(c) Anger at Sloth.
(d) Sorrow that he would not benefit from the oil.

2. Where is Nailer crawling?
(a) Through a narrow tunnel.
(b) In an attic.
(c) Under a house.
(d) Through a corn field.

3. What shocks Nailer and Pima when they are on board the clipper?
(a) The dead bodies.
(b) The way the ship shifts.
(c) The smell.
(d) The value of objects on board.

4. Why does Nailer have to go to his house instead of Pima's?
(a) The storm is coming too fast to get to Pima's house.
(b) To tell his father about what happened that day.
(c) His father sends word for him to come home.
(d) He needs his spare set of clothes.

5. Why does Nailer mark where he has ended his scavenge?
(a) So he will not waste time going back down the same tunnel.
(b) So he can keep track of his pay.
(c) So he will find the end the next day.
(d) So others will leave it alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer know of one thing he does not have in his life?

2. What does Nailer decide to do to save himself?

3. What happens when Nailer walks through the door of his home?

4. What do Nailer and Pima find in the engineering room?

5. How is Nailer seeing what he is doing?

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