Ship Breaker Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Paolo Bacigalupi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Ship Breaker Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

Paolo Bacigalupi
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 watch as he lies down outside the tanker after work?
(a) A dragonfly alighting on a water lily.
(b) Clipper ships streaming across the water.
(c) An eagle hovering.
(d) His brother rolling wire.

2. How does Nailer manage to avoid a beating from his father?
(a) Nailer gives him a bottle of liquor.
(b) Nailer tells him that Bapi wants to talk to the father.
(c) Nailer runs quickly to his room.
(d) Nailer tells him that he was promoted.

3. What is considered impossible for someone like Nailer?
(a) Leaving the neighborhood in which he is born.
(b) Working on a clipper ship.
(c) Becoming supervisor of a crew.
(d) Becoming educated.

4. How does Sadna care for Nailer?
(a) Out of a sense of duty.
(b) As if he were kin.
(c) As if he were an animal.
(d) Reluctantly.

5. What does Pima start thinking about immediately after seeing the clipper ship?
(a) What he'll do with the wealth.
(b) Keeping it secret and scavenging it.
(c) Re-floating it.
(d) Working on it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sloth?

2. Why does Nailer mark where he has ended his scavenge?

3. Who is Bapi?

4. What is one of the worse things that can happen to a member of the crew?

5. What does Nailer feel as he propels himself out of the water?

(see the answer key)

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