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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nailer watch as he lies down outside the tanker after work?
(a) An eagle hovering.
(b) A dragonfly alighting on a water lily.
(c) Clipper ships streaming across the water.
(d) His brother rolling wire.

2. How is Nailer seeing what he is doing?
(a) He's wearing a miner's cap.
(b) He is holding a flashlight in his mouth.
(c) It's daylight, and he has no need for any extra light.
(d) He has some phosphorescent gel smeared on his forehead.

3. Who is best at stripping wires from ancient tankers?
(a) Small children.
(b) Anyone who wants good money.
(c) Trained dogs.
(d) Strong men.

4. What happens when Nailer walks through the door of his home?
(a) His father strikes a match.
(b) His father says something.
(c) He smells something dead.
(d) He steps on a body.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer find on his first dive?

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

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

4. What does the Life Cult group use human eggs to do?

5. To what does Bapi condemn Sloth?

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