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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 type of shell does Bo wear on a leather cord around his neck?
(a) Cowrie.
(b) Scallop.
(c) Conch.
(d) Abalone.

2. Where does Bo have to hide on board the Prosperity?
(a) Fo'csle deck.
(b) Bilge.
(c) Hold.
(d) Deck 6.

3. How long does Sai remember that Mud worked in a slaughterhouse on the edge of An Lung?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 1 1/2 years.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) A week.

4. How long ago did a sailor create the fisherman's map that Rian bought in the Harbor Market before the Prosperity departed?
(a) 75 years.
(b) 150 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 125 years.

5. Who protests when the captain's letter releases Paiyoon as mapmaker?
(a) The senior officers.
(b) The cook and Mr. Lark.
(c) The sailors.
(d) Dr. Pinching and Mr. Lark.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the fire in Chapter 32?

2. How much of her meals is Sai giving Bo in Chapter 21?

3. How big is the whaling ship compared to the Prosperity?

4. At the end of Chapter 27, how many letters does Rian want Sai to write?

5. Where was the man from that Captain Sangra loved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ship's hold like where Bo has to hide?

2. How does Sai learn how to sketch an area to create a map?

3. In Chapter 26, why does Sai tell Bo he can stay in her room?

4. What is the whaling ship like?

5. What is Rian's story?

6. What is Bo's story?

7. What does Rian ask Sai to do after the captain gets sick and why?

8. Who leaves the Prosperity at Avens Island?

9. In Chapter 21, what conversation do Paiyoon and Rian have about the Sunderlands?

10. What do the whalers do with the whale they kill and why?

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