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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 Pima do despite gagging?
(a) Digs through the pockets of a dead man on the ship.
(b) Helps Nailer pull a dead woman out of one of the doorways.
(c) Pulls a dead man off the bow.
(d) Rummage around four bodies to find the door to the inner cabin.

2. What shocks Nailer when he emerges from the trees?
(a) The beach is swept empty.
(b) Despite the storm's ferocity, almost everything is still standing.
(c) Most everyone is dead.
(d) Two of the tankers are completely beached.

3. Where do Nailer and Pima find a clipper ship?
(a) Anchored just off shore.
(b) In the forest canopy.
(c) Partly aground on the north side of the island.
(d) Nestled in trees deep in the jungle.

4. What room does Nailer find as he is searching through the ship?
(a) A girl's cabin.
(b) A room of books.
(c) A room of trunks.
(d) A room of expensive electronics.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Pima see coming their way?

2. How long has Nailer owned the mask he wears?

3. Where is Nailer feeling pain the next morning?

4. What does Nailer do to Lucky Girl with his knife?

5. Upon what is Nailer tugging?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Nailer feel about Richard, and what saves Nailer from a beating when he gets home after his oil experience?

3. What is Nailer doing as the novel opens?

4. Why are Pima and Nailer shocked by what they find on the clipper ship?

5. What does the girl ask Nailer when she wakes and what is his reaction?

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

7. What is Nailer's solution to not trusting the girl they rescue?

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

9. What does Nailer do and what is the work like?

10. Who cares for Nailer's wounds?

(see the answer keys)

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