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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Allmuseri martial art is based on fighting in close quarters while bound?
(a) Obnu Bilate.
(b) Kabye.
(c) Capoeira.
(d) Dambe.

2. What does Rutherford wind up inheriting from Reverend Chandler?
(a) Forty dollars, a Bible, and Chandler's bedpan.
(b) Four dollars, a book of poetry, and Chandler's razor.
(c) A Bible.
(d) Forty acres, a copy of McGuffey's Primer, and a mule.

3. When the ship sinks, where does it break apart?
(a) Down the center.
(b) At the back.
(c) At the front.
(d) Across the middle.

4. According to the rules Diamelo establishes after Captain Falcon's death, what language must be spoken by all on board?
(a) Allmuseri.
(b) Swahili.
(c) English.
(d) Portuguese.

5. When Ngonyama falls ill, what does Squibb diagnose him with?
(a) Appendicitis.
(b) Internal bleeding.
(c) Scurvy.
(d) Cancer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Reverend Chandler dispose of his estate?

2. After the battle ends, whom do the Allmuseri accuse of being responsible for the brutal ways in which they were treated?

3. When Meadows and Ngonyama carry a slave boy's corpse from below, what body part(s) does Meadows cut off before the corpse is thrown overboard?

4. What does Ngonyama tell Rutherford, during the battle on deck, that he must do now if he is going to do it at all?

5. In what way, according to Rutherford, do the Allmuseri greet visitors to their village that is often misunderstood?

Short Essay Questions

1. One night, Cringle tells Rutherford about his father. How does Cringle describe his father's attitude towards money and the rich?

2. After the ceremony the Allmuseri hold to cleanse the ship after the uprising, what does Ngonyama send Rutherford to do?

3. How do the slaves get free?

4. Captain Falcon tells Rutherford the names of the Republic's three financiers. Who are they?

5. After his discussion with Squibb, Rutherford goes back up on deck and sees Ngonyama looking out to sea toward Bangalang. What does this remind Rutherford of?

6. When Ngonyama tells Rutherford that he would not harm the crew if he were master of the Republic, what reason does he give?

7. After Rutherford finishes his dinner conversation with Falcon and returns to the deck, he observes Meadows wearing various people's clothes and imitating them while beating the dogs. Why is he doing this?

8. What is Falcon's motive for bringing the Allmuseri god on board?

9. When another ship is sighted, what does Diamelo suggest doing about it?

10. What is the attitude and behavior of Diamelo, one of the Allmuseri men who led the rebellion, towards the Americans?

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