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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 222 - 277).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Big Kit give to Washington to protect himself in Chapter 4?
(a) A long nail.
(b) A thumbtack.
(c) A gun.
(d) A knife.

2. What does Washington give to Titch to help keep cool in Chapter 7?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Water.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Palm leaves.

3. What happens to the octopus in Part IV, Chapter 4?
(a) It gets sick.
(b) It dies.
(c) It has babies.
(d) It starts talking.

4. What does Washington discover Tanna has a deep knowledge of in Part III, Chapter 4?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Trees.
(c) Marine biology and invertebrates.
(d) Archaeology.

5. What is unusual about the ship's crew in Part II, Chapter 2?
(a) They are all orphans.
(b) They are all one-handed.
(c) They are all women.
(d) They are all black men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Washington's dinner companion in Part III, Chapter 10, say he encountered in an American town a short while earlier?

2. Why does Washington think for a brief while that Tanna might be married?

3. What does Washington know about his father?

4. What is Tanna's father's name?

5. What does Mrs. Wilde want to know from Washington when he and Tanna go to visit her?

(see the answer key)

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