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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pima tells Nailer that everyone wants to be close to Nailer because____________.
(a) Bapi promotes Nailer.
(b) Nailer was loyal.
(c) Nailer has luck.
(d) Bapi respects Nailer.

3. What does Nailer not understand about the owners of the clipper ship?
(a) Why they have not come looking for it.
(b) Why they haven't started operations to pull it off the sand bar.
(c) Why they would have been out in the storm.
(d) Why they are anchored in pirate territory.

4. What happens when the duct suddenly squeaks and shakes?
(a) A huge spool of wire falls out of the duct.
(b) The duct fills with poisonous vapors.
(c) It falls into a thick pool of dark liquid.
(d) It deafens Nailer.

5. To what does Bapi condemn Sloth?
(a) Death.
(b) Thirty lashes.
(c) A life off the crews.
(d) A penal colony.

Short Answer Questions

1. After how much use is the mask supposed to be discarded?

2. What does Nailer find on his first dive?

3. What does Nailer watch as he lies down outside the tanker after work?

4. Upon what is Nailer tugging?

5. What do crews do?

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