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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Lucky Strike offered others until ship breaking begins?
(a) Food and water on credit.
(b) A place to gather.
(c) Small jobs to earn money.
(d) Some fuel for cooking.

2. What does Nailer not understand about the owners of the clipper ship?
(a) Why they are anchored in pirate territory.
(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 have not come looking for it.

3. What type of clipper ship is the one they board?
(a) Pirate.
(b) Business.
(c) Government.
(d) Personal.

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

5. Why is Nailer hesitant about seeing Richard?
(a) He's not sure if his father is drunk.
(b) He feels badly that he was not able to save his father himself.
(c) He thinks Richard looks different.
(d) He's not sure how his father feels about being saved.

6. What does the rich girl ask Nailer when she wakes?
(a) How he found the clipper ship.
(b) How he hurt his shoulder.
(c) Why he didn't kill her.
(d) Why he keeps Pima around.

7. What does Bapi do to Sloth?
(a) Slices off her tattoos.
(b) Tattos the word traitor across her forehead.
(c) Slices off one of her fingers.
(d) Shaves her head.

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

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

10. Who is Bapi?
(a) The accountant.
(b) The crew boss.
(c) The beat cop.
(d) The dock foreman.

11. What does Nailer find on his first dive?
(a) A porthold.
(b) A door.
(c) A rung ladder.
(d) A water hose.

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

13. Who is Tool?
(a) A monstrous half man.
(b) The island's only cop.
(c) Richard's second in command.
(d) The man who started Richard on drugs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer realize about Lucky Girl for the first time since he met her?

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

3. How is Nailer seeing what he is doing?

4. Why does Pima hand Nailer a knife?

5. Where does Nailer go for help?

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