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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jessie want to watch the cook do?
(a) Pluck a chicken.
(b) Percolate coffee.
(c) Butcher a cow.
(d) Knead dough.

2. Who tells Jessie about the danger of being caught in the slave trade?
(a) Purvis.
(b) Sharkey.
(c) Grime.
(d) Captain.

3. What is Jessie told he will be doing on the ship?
(a) Catching rats.
(b) Cleaning the cabins.
(c) Helping the cook.
(d) Playing his fife.

4. What does the captain use to change the ship's nationality when needed?
(a) Clothing in different styles.
(b) Different accents.
(c) A fake translator.
(d) Foreign flags.

5. How old was Jessie when his father died?
(a) 4.
(b) 7.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

6. How many homes were destroyed by the fire Jessie saw when he was little?
(a) 107.
(b) 207.
(c) 177.
(d) 77.

7. What stops the quarreling on the ship while in the Bight of Benin?
(a) A gun fired by Spark.
(b) The first boatlad of ships.
(c) A full moon.
(d) Jessie's song on the fife.

8. How much does the Captain pay for each slave?
(a) $20.
(b) $15.
(c) $5.
(d) $10.

9. What do the men on the ship start doing when the wind dies?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Quarreling.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Gambling.

10. Who is Jessie?
(a) The antagonist.
(b) The narrator's brother.
(c) The narrator.
(d) The narrator's sister.

11. How old is Jessie when he is put on the ship?
(a) 13.
(b) 12.
(c) 14.
(d) 15.

12. What does Jessie do to earn money?
(a) Sings.
(b) Does odd chores.
(c) Dances.
(d) Plays a fife.

13. Who takes Jessie to see the Captain?
(a) Stout.
(b) Claudias.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Purvis.

14. Which country is the most fearsome to the ships in the slave trade?
(a) Britain.
(b) Italy.
(c) America.
(d) India.

15. Who does Jessie call the foulest man alive?
(a) Purvis.
(b) Stout.
(c) Smith.
(d) The Captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Jessie's mother told him to stay away from?

2. What does Purvis say makes cooks so angry?

3. What strange thing happens on shore when Jessie gets to the Bight of Benin?

4. What does Jessie say being at sea makes a man think about?

5. Why is Jessie so hesitant about being on a slave ship?

(see the answer keys)

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