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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the fire in Chapter 32?

2. What color are the flags that indicate Fahlin is plagued by fever?

3. How long does Dumpling say that the Slake can hold her breath?

4. What type of shell does Bo wear on a leather cord around his neck?

5. What vegetables are in the soup Cook gives Sai at the end of Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Captain Sangra give Sai for her strength returning?

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

3. What does Sai realize about Master Paiyoon's reluctance to try to find the Sunderlands?

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

5. What plan does Sai make to be able to get access to all of Paiyoon's papers?

6. How does Paiyoon respond when he learns that he is to leave the ship and Sai is to take his place?

7. What is Bo's story?

8. How does Sai make sure that Grebe does not identify her as a girl from the Fens?

9. Why is it a struggle for Sai to hide Bo?

10. How does the whaling ship attract the whales and bring them in close to be killed and harvested?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sai lives in the very poorest area of An Lung. Because of her socioeconomic status, she has little chance of having a better life. How does Sai overcome her background?

Essay Topic 2

In The Last Mapmaker, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 3

Based on what a character sees, they can come to wrong conclusions. How and why do characters and readers come to false conclusions about Rian?

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