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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nailer say she must do if he keeps her alive?
(a) Pay them the ransom and not his father.
(b) Take him and Pima off the island with her.
(c) Give them the clipper ship that wrecked.
(d) Tell his father that Richard stole from her.

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

3. Why does Pima hand Nailer a knife?
(a) To make sure the girl is dead.
(b) To cut off the fingers of the girl to get her rings.
(c) To cut off a diamond necklace a dead girl is wearing.
(d) To dig out the diamond stud in the girl's nose.

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

5. How many dives does it take Nailer to open the door?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

6. Who is the only person on the island with medicine?
(a) Richard.
(b) Lucky Strike.
(c) Bapti.
(d) Sadna.

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

8. How do Pima and Nailer survive the winds and rain?
(a) Digging a cave in the side of the hill.
(b) Tying themselves to fence posts.
(c) Climbing a hill inland.
(d) Clinging to trees.

9. What does Nailer realize about Lucky Girl for the first time since he met her?
(a) She's pretty.
(b) She is not snobby like he'd imagine a rich girl would be.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She has a mean streak.

10. Why does Nailer wear a mask?
(a) The air is full of sulfur.
(b) The air contains little oxygen.
(c) Protection from asbestos and rat droppings.
(d) So he cannot be recognized by the child labor people.

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

12. What is Patel Global?
(a) A company that runs slaves and drugs.
(b) The company that buys the scrap metal from the island.
(c) The ruling government of the world.
(d) A telecommunications company.

13. Where is Nailer feeling pain the next morning?
(a) In his shoulder.
(b) In his head.
(c) In his palm.
(d) In his left leg where he cut it.

14. 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.

15. 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) His father sends word for him to come home.
(c) To tell his father about what happened that day.
(d) He needs his spare set of clothes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Nailer go for help?

3. For what does Nailer search in Lucky Girl's eyes?

4. What does no one take seriously about Sloth?

5. Why doesn't Nailer's father try to flee the storm?

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