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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 does Thorby get in Rudbek City?

2. What is the name of Thorby's secretary?

3. What did Baslim do to earn the family's debt?

4. What does Thorby call Weemsby?

5. Where did Thorby and Leda have an argument?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Weemsby and Bruder want Thorby to sign papers for?

2. What advice does Counselor Garsch give Thorby?

3. Describe Leda.

4. Describe the method of trading on Finster.

5. What is the Gathering?

6. What is Thorby heir to?

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

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

9. What is the trade on Woolamurra?

10. At the Gathering what does Captain Krausa discover that changes Thorby's life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Thorby's uncle has Thorby and Leda followed and most of the house where Thorby is staying is bugged.

Part 1) Does this seem excessive? Explain why or why not and to what degree it seems excessive.

Part 2) What does it show about Uncle John's character to know that he has had everywhere bugged?

Essay Topic 3

Education is highly enforced by Baslim in the story.

Part 1) What is the reason that Baslim pushes Thorby so hard to be educated?

Part 2) How would the story have differed had Baslim had no education?

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