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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 did Thorby and Leda have an argument?

2. What are the products the Traders wanted from Finster?

3. What was Thorby's father's last name?

4. Where was the original Sisu built and the first Captain Krausa born?

5. Thorby counted his money where?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Leda.

2. What leads Captain Bisby to discover who Thoby's blood relatives are?

3. What is the Gathering?

4. What does Thorby do to hurry the search for his blood family?

5. What makes Woolamurra ideal if Thorby no longer wants to be a trader?

6. What advice does Counselor Garsch give Thorby?

7. What is Thorby heir to?

8. What business does Thorby attend after leaving the counselor's office?

9. What does Thorby confide in Leda?

10. What is Thorby's idea concerning the investigation of the slave trade?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe Garsch's character given what is seen in the story.

Part 2) What is likely to be Garsch's future involvement with Thorby?

Part 3) What about Garsch's character was the most helpful to Thorby and his endeavors?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Mata showed Thorby attention he did not notice and Thorby was being unwittingly set up with two other females in the book.

Part 1) What does it show about Thorby that he never noticed that these matches were being made?

Part 2) What does it reveal to the reader about Thorby's feelings about these girls that he didn't perceive what was going on?

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