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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nailer decide to do to save himself?
(a) Make a deal with Sloth.
(b) Strip off his clothes.
(c) Bang a hole to drain the oil.
(d) Dive down into the oil.

2. What does Sadna pull from Nailer's skull?
(a) A piece of wire.
(b) Big globs of oil.
(c) A blade of rusted metal.
(d) Nothing.

3. Who is Sadna?
(a) Bipa's wife.
(b) Sloth's mother.
(c) Nailer's cousin.
(d) Pima's mother.

4. 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 runs quickly to his room.
(c) Nailer tells him that he was promoted.
(d) Nailer gives him a bottle of liquor.

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

6. To whom is Richard grateful?
(a) Lucky Strike.
(b) God.
(c) Sadna and Nailer.
(d) Tick-Tock.

7. What does Nailer do to Lucky Girl with his knife?
(a) Makes an x mark on her forehead.
(b) Slices her palm.
(c) Cuts a nick off her ear.
(d) Cuts a lock of her hair.

8. Where do they find bodies?
(a) Mostly still in the peoples' homes.
(b) They do not find any since they were washed out to sea.
(c) Mostly in the harbor around the pier poles.
(d) In tree limbs and on the shore.

9. Why is it maddening to Nailer that he may die?
(a) He is only eight.
(b) His sister is depending on him.
(c) He has fallen in love.
(d) He has found unbelievable wealth.

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

11. What does Nailer's crew share?
(a) Nailer's luck.
(b) News about Sloth.
(c) A pigeon and some liquor.
(d) A chicken and some beer.

12. What could the rich girl's fingers have been to Nailer?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A reminder of the capriciousness of life.
(c) A way to prove his claim.
(d) Fate amulets.

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

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

15. What does the rich girl say her father will do?
(a) Give them jobs on clipper ships.
(b) Search for them all if she is harmed and have them arrested.
(c) Give them their own clipper ship.
(d) Pay richly for her return.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is considered impossible for someone like Nailer?

2. Who does Pima see coming their way?

3. To what does Nailer attribute his feelings about Bright Sands Beach?

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

5. Who is the only person on the island with medicine?

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