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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nailer think about as he is creeping toward Blue Eyes?
(a) All the love he has received from Pima and her mother.
(b) All the violence he has seen in his young life.
(c) Being captive on the island for the rest of his life.
(d) Being free of the island.

2. What is in Uppadaya?
(a) An illegal slave market.
(b) Where Richard is going to send word to Nita's people.
(c) An illegal drug market.
(d) A scavenge house.

3. What does Nailer do as he leaps off the ship's mechanism?
(a) Hits his father in the face with his boots.
(b) Slashes at his father with his knife.
(c) Yells at Nita to run.
(d) Pulls the lever down on the machine.

4. Which ship has Nita seen?
(a) The Constitution.
(b) The Iron Mountain.
(c) The Monitor.
(d) The Dauntless.

5. What does Nailer notice that frightens him?
(a) His father is not around.
(b) Pima is frightened.
(c) Blue Eyes is sharpening her machete.
(d) Lucky Girl is frightened.

6. What does Nailer convince Knot to do?
(a) Give Nailer reading lessons.
(b) Let Nailer maintain the fires.
(c) Ask the Captain for another job.
(d) Let Nailer run errands.

7. What do the travelers realize when they check their pockets?
(a) They have no identification.
(b) They have enough money to get them across the lake.
(c) They are full of muck and debris.
(d) They have very little money.

8. Who is Reynolds?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain's first mate.
(c) The boatswain's mate.
(d) The crewmember to whom Nailer speaks about a job.

9. What does Captain Candless say about the ship where Tool believes Nita is being held?
(a) It is the fastest, most dangerous ship in the fleet.
(b) It had been loyal to Nita's father.
(c) It is very slow.
(d) It's captain can be bribed.

10. What does Captain Candless do after hearing Nailer's story?
(a) Gathers a crew to go get Nita.
(b) Tells Nailer to go bring Nita to the ship.
(c) Throws Nailer in the brig.
(d) Throws Nailer overboard.

11. Who fights Blue Eyes?
(a) Tools.
(b) Sadna.
(c) Moby.
(d) Nailer.

12. 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.

13. Why do they have to move quickly?
(a) So Nita will not venture out.
(b) To perhaps find Tool alive.
(c) So Nita will not think Nailer was captured and get herself captured.
(d) Before Pyce's people realize that Nita is still alive.

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

15. Which boats in the harbor belong to Nita's father's fleet?
(a) One.
(b) Several of them.
(c) Almost all were originally her father's.
(d) None of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer do?

2. What does the crew of the Dauntless do when the Pole Star gets snagged on some rocks?

3. What happens when Candless leaps on board and orders the crew to surrender?

4. Where does the Dauntless need to reach before the Pole Star catches her?

5. To what ship does Tool say Nita has been taken?

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