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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. What color flowers can Sai see on the rocks along the beach at Avens Island?

2. When Sai gets to the quarterdeck in Chapter 30, how many of the topgallant sails have been rolled up?

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

4. How much time does Sai offer to spend watching Lark's net in Chapter 17?

5. How long ago did a sailor create the fisherman's map that Rian bought in the Harbor Market before the Prosperity departed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Rian's story?

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

7. What is the whaling ship like?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sai tries to disguise herself on board the Prosperity. How and why does Sai disguise herself?

Essay Topic 2

A pickpocket tries to steal Sai's money. After the pickpocket he is apprehended, he calls Sai a snitch. Why is Sai troubled when the pickpocket calls her a snitch, and why does she realize she should not be troubled?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of The Last Mapmaker and why is that incident the climax?

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