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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 Baslim's home located?

2. Why did Baslim send Thorby to the shipyards?

3. To Thorby what was the time between two sleeps?

4. What art did Baslim learn as a young man?

5. What language did Thorby learn living in the bachelor's quarters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the policeman reveal in his conversation with Auntie Singham?

2. What is Baslim trying to teach Thorby using Doctor Renshaw's method?

3. What news does Thorby receive when seeing the fortune teller on Joy Street?

4. Upon Baslim's death what does he ask Thorby to do?

5. In the ship's school what is the subject Thorby excelled at?

6. In his new family what must Thorby learn to address them correctly?

7. What message does Thorby give to the captain, and how is it believable?

8. What does the beggar do with the boy when he gets to his home?

9. Describe Captain Krausa.

10. What was some unspoken rules that Thorby kept?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe the role that trade and commerce played in the story.

Part 2) In what ways does the trade and commerce in the story differ from modern day? In what ways is it the same?

Part 3) What can the reader glean from the trade and commerce as it is described in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) What is the reason that Thorby doesn't think as highly of Captain Krausa as he did Baslim? Is there any indication that Krausa didn't treat Thorby as his own child?

Part 2) Did Baslim mean for Krausa to have taken Baslim in as his adopted son? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Grandmother is a very strong figure although she is seen for a limited time.

Part 1) How does Grandmother's role for Thorby change for him from the first time he stepped on the ship to when Grandmother dies?

Part 2) Describe Grandmother's personality. Is there any indication that she truly cares for Thorby? Explain.

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