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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. At the end of Chapter 26, how many harbingers remain with the Prosperity when it moves again?

2. How much has Captain Sangra given Rian to pay gambling debts?

3. How long does Sai remember that Mud worked in a slaughterhouse on the edge of An Lung?

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

5. At the beginning of Chapter 19, how many days has Sai been hiding Bo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Rian's story?

4. Why is it dangerous to wait until a squall hits to take in sails?

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

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

7. What is Bo's story?

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

9. What is the whaling ship like?

10. In the records Sai studies from Paiyoon, why were sailors not able to measure their longitude accurately?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in The Last Mapmaker? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

Novels can be structured and divided in different ways. How does the structure of a novel provide clarity and flow to a story? What are chapter titles and subtitles? What are some purposes of chapter titles and subtitles? How does Soontornvat use chapter titles and subtitles in The Last Mapmaker?

Essay Topic 3

An inciting incident is an event in literature that causes and presents a problem that characters need to solve. What are some inciting incidents in The Last Mapmaker? Why are those inciting incidents?

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