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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 the cook to give him when the wind dies?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Beer.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Water.

2. What does Jessie say being at sea makes a man think about?
(a) God.
(b) The future.
(c) Life.
(d) Death.

3. Who sells the slaves from Africa to the slavers?
(a) Young sailors.
(b) African Ambassadors.
(c) The prison keepers.
(d) Native kings.

4. What shocks Jessie most about the ship?
(a) The sinister look about it.
(b) The large size.
(c) The beauty of it.
(d) The stench.

5. What does the Captain call Jessie?
(a) Bollucks.
(b) Bullet.
(c) Ballinchain.
(d) Bollweevil.

6. Why is Jessie so hesitant about being on a slave ship?
(a) It is illegal.
(b) He does not like slaves.
(c) He is against slavery.
(d) He has heard strange stories about slaver ships.

7. What does the Captain do when he first meets Jessie?
(a) Throttles him.
(b) Bites his ear.
(c) Slaps his face.
(d) Whips him.

8. What is the first question Jessie was asked on the ship?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) How old he was.
(c) What his name was.
(d) What he knew about ships.

9. What is Jessie's last name?
(a) Bollier.
(b) Billings.
(c) Baller.
(d) Bullint.

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

11. Where does Jessie live at the beginning of the book?
(a) Baton Rouge.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Biloxi.
(d) Miami.

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

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

14. What is used to cover the hatches at the hold?
(a) Mesh.
(b) Chains.
(c) Tarpaulin.
(d) Gratings.

15. Who snaps Jessie out of his breathless state at one point?
(a) The Captain.
(b) Purvis.
(c) Curry.
(d) The Mate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom is Jessie sent to borrow candles from?

2. How old is Jessie when he is put on the ship?

3. Where does Jessie first meet the Captain?

4. What windows does Jessie like to peek in?

5. Why does Jessie not believe the man who says he does not want to be involved in the slave trade?

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