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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is now discovered about Carl's boat that the Sheriff missed earlier?
(a) Another gaff with no blood
(b) Blood on the coffee cup and floor
(c) An empty knife sheath
(d) Cut lashings and blood on the mast and spar pole

2. Kabuo had felt he should be silent about events with Carl Heine
(a) Because the laws could change
(b) Until after the dust had settled
(c) Until Hatsue was able to tell her story
(d) Until he was able to get an attorney

3. How did Carl Heine, Jr. die?
(a) The wake from a large ship capsized his boat
(b) The wake from a large ship knocked him off his mast
(c) The wake from a large shipped threw him overboard
(d) The wake from a large ship drowned him

4. Why didn't Kabuo remember getting an extra battery before he went fishing on the morning of his arrest?
(a) It didn't fit with his story
(b) It did not seem relevant
(c) It was three months ago
(d) It was a detail he wanted to forget

5. Ishmael's father felt the islanders were forced
(a) To forego an education to survive
(b) To keep their feelings suppressed
(c) Stay on the island where they were born
(d) To fish or farm, one or the other

6. Gillanders speculates that Kabuo could not have
(a) Made a forced boarding
(b) Forced Carl to board his boat
(c) Forced Carl to head back to shore
(d) Pulled up his own nets

7. Reviewing the errands he must run due to the storm, Ishmael plans to
(a) Offer Hatsue and her family a ride
(b) Get a storm report from the Coast Guard station
(c) Go into Anacortes for the national news
(d) Borrow the printing press in the Seattle office

8. When recess is called, Judge Fielding asks
(a) Soames to find firewood for heat
(b) Soames to get him some lunch
(c) The lawyers to meet with him privately
(d) The lawyers to take a long break

9. Ishmael remembers that his father did not
(a) Read all of his books
(b) Appear to wish for something else
(c) Read the paper very much
(d) Slow down much

10. When Hooks excuses Hatsue, she is prevented from
(a) Expressing her love for Kabuo
(b) Fully answering his last question
(c) Telling Hooks her opinion
(d) Defending Kabuo's actions

11. As they leave court, Nels Gudmundsson mentions to Ishmael
(a) How much he liked Ishmael's father
(b) They should pray for Ishmael's mother
(c) What an admirable man he was
(d) That he knew about Ishmael and Hatsue

12. The jurors cannot convict the defendant if there remains in their minds
(a) A prejudice against Japanese
(b) A premeditated decision
(c) A reasonable doubt
(d) Any anger toward the defendant

13. Ishmael Chambers suffers from
(a) A prostate condition
(b) Denervation of the limb
(c) Low self-esteem
(d) Phantom limb pain

14. In court, Judge Fielding appears to be
(a) Stressed
(b) Slovenly
(c) Disinterested
(d) Ill with a headache

15. Ishmael learns that the seamen who were on duty the night of Carl's death
(a) Were lost in the storm
(b) Are now working in Canada
(c) Have been transferred
(d) Were fired by the coast guard

Short Answer Questions

1. Nels Gundersson at 79, feels as though he

2. The persistent wind from this current storm makes the islanders

3. Nels Gudmundsson includes in his closing argument an insight into

4. While the Sheriff reads the shorthand notes on the Coast Guard report

5. When Kabuo asks to buy back his land, Carl Heine tells him

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