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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Nailer not understand about the owners of the clipper ship?
(a) Why they would have been out in the storm.
(b) Why they are anchored in pirate territory.
(c) Why they haven't started operations to pull it off the sand bar.
(d) Why they have not come looking for it.

4. How does Nailer mark Lucky Girl?
(a) With blood on her tongue.
(b) With blood on her face.
(c) He does not mark her as it would devalue her.
(d) With a tatto of blue ink on her palm.

5. Why does Nailer wear a mask?
(a) The air contains little oxygen.
(b) Protection from asbestos and rat droppings.
(c) So he cannot be recognized by the child labor people.
(d) The air is full of sulfur.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does no one take seriously about Sloth?

2. What does Nailer hear when he leans forward closer to the rich girl?

3. How long could Nailer's head injury take to heal?

4. Who is Sloth?

5. What is one problem Pima thinks about concerning the clipper ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Nailer crawling when he goes back end and what does he think of concerning Jackson Boy?

2. What does the crew think will happen to Sloth?

3. What happens during the storm and immediately in the aftermath of the storm?

4. What do Pima and Nailer find in the galley that makes it obvious that this is a massive Lucky Strike?

5. Describe the ritual of making the girl a crew member.

6. What is the attitude about luck among Nailer's community and how will that affect Nailer's relationship to others after his almost dying.?

7. What are the drawbacks to trying to salvage the clipper themselves?

8. How does Nailer fare in the oil when he falls into a pool of it?

9. Why do the children work so hard when Bapi appears?

10. How does Nailer get out of the oil and the ship?

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