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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the girl say when they have built a fire and given her food and water?
(a) Mother.
(b) Father.
(c) Thank you.
(d) Nothing.

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

3. What do Nailer and Pima do the day after the storm?
(a) Scavenge for supplies to build new homes.
(b) Hang around at the docks hoping work would start soon.
(c) Tend the wounded.
(d) Run errands for the older people.

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

5. What does her father know about Lucky Girl's situation?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Lucky Girl is safe.
(c) The tracer is disabled.
(d) The clipper was in the storm.

6. How does Nailer explain why he took so long to get what he gathered?
(a) Nothing is left close to the surface.
(b) He hurt his back.
(c) He scratched his eye.
(d) His mask was malfunctioning.

7. What does Nailer know of one thing he does not have in his life?
(a) Luck.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Opportunity.
(d) Goodness.

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

9. 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) Sorrow that he would not benefit from the oil.
(d) Disgust.

10. What would Richard be more than willing to do to claim the salvage?
(a) Give them three children a small pittance for their find.
(b) Kill all three children.
(c) Lie.
(d) Sell the three children into slavery.

11. For what does Nailer search in Lucky Girl's eyes?
(a) Signs of betrayal.
(b) She understands what has happened.
(c) She will help him.
(d) She likes him.

12. What does Lucky Girl say is probably on the clipper ship?
(a) More jewels.
(b) A radio.
(c) More canned goods.
(d) Penicillin.

13. What does no one take seriously about Sloth?
(a) Her wanting to crawl in the ducts.
(b) Her orders.
(c) Her dream to command a crew.
(d) Her desire to marry a wealthy captain.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer say she must do if he keeps her alive?

2. What shocks Nailer and Pima when they are on board the clipper?

3. What is Patel Global?

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

5. What type of clipper ship is the one they board?

(see the answer keys)

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