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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Richard seem when he arrives and notices Nailer is awake?
(a) Puzzled.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Genuinely pleased.

2. What does Nailer beg of Richard?
(a) To let Nailer pay him more money to return to the island.
(b) Nailer will not beg anything of his father.
(c) To go back to the island and forget Nailer.
(d) To leave Nailer alone.

3. What does Nita not understand about Tool?
(a) Why he left his crew.
(b) If Tool can think for himself.
(c) How he can work without a master.
(d) Why he has stayed with Nita and Nailer.

4. How much had the crew been betting?
(a) 10 Green Canadian.
(b) 50 Blue British.
(c) 10 red Chinese.
(d) 50 red Chinese.

5. Where does the Dauntless need to reach before the Pole Star catches her?
(a) The Orleans harbor.
(b) The lee side of the island.
(c) The Teeth.
(d) A neutral zone near Mobile.

6. Why doesn't Captain Candless believe it is the ship whose name Tool recognizes?
(a) That ship is supposed to be in dry dock.
(b) That ship is supposed to be in Russia.
(c) That ship is supposed to be in South America.
(d) That ship is supposed to be in Japan.

7. How does Tool compare himself to the rest of his breed?
(a) He says he is smarter.
(b) He has less of the canine genes in his blood.
(c) He is stronger.
(d) He is about the same as most of them.

8. Where is Lucky Girl when Nailer wakes?
(a) Handcuffed to Blue Eyes.
(b) Nailer cannot find her.
(c) Handcuffed to Tool.
(d) Chained to a tree.

9. To what ship does Tool say Nita has been taken?
(a) The Sunbeam.
(b) The Ray.
(c) The Pole Star.
(d) The Dauntless.

10. How does Richard wound Nailer?
(a) Throwing a spanner wrench at Nailer.
(b) Shooting him with a laser pistol.
(c) A slash of Richard's machete across Nailer's stomach.
(d) Pushing him against a rotating fan.

11. What does Nailer know he can never do now after the melee on the beach?
(a) Become a Lucky Strike boat owner.
(b) Claim any of the salvage.
(c) Return to the scrap yards.
(d) Gain his father's approval.

12. Who is Knot?
(a) A sailmaker.
(b) A half-man who works in the machine room.
(c) A boatswain's crewmember.
(d) A navigator.

13. What ship had been chasing Nita into the storm?
(a) The Sting Ray.
(b) The Lightning.
(c) The Pole Star.
(d) The Dauntless.

14. What does Nailer do when they are aboard the train?
(a) Cries.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Smiles.
(d) Collapses.

15. Who comes running into the shack when Blue Eyes is about to blind one of Nailer's eyes?
(a) Richard.
(b) Nita.
(c) Sadna and her crew.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tool decide to do?

2. Who is with Richard?

3. What is in Uppadaya?

4. What does Pima do when Nailer starts to argue with Richard?

5. What surprises Nailer about the place where he leads the men?

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