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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 was Herr Gobel's first name?

2. How many stacks did the freighter "The Ghanjee" have?

3. What month was Bram born?

4. How did Bram get to the elephantarium?

5. How long had "The Ghanjee" been traveling the high seas?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who were the people in the circus sideshow, and why did they join together?

2. What could Bram see when he left the hospital and went to the street?

3. Why did a sailor on the boat that rescued the survivors hit Hands?

4. What reasons did Gobel give for selling the circus?

5. What did Josef do for a living?

6. Where did the circus employees go when the circus closed for the winter?

7. What did the captain order Bram to do when he was discovered stowed away on the ship?

8. What did Bram tell Mo when it appeared that they would drown?

9. What did Bram find inside the truck in which he stowed away so he could go to America with Modoc?

10. Why did Kelly help Bram?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss conflicts that Bram struggled with throughout the book and how they affected his life. Were these conflicts mostly internal or external?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss why Bram struggled with feelings of guilt and whether these feelings were due to a real or imagined moral code that Bram felt he had broken.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the dangers along the trail that Bram and Mo traveled when they left the Elephantarium and how Bram and Mo dealt with these dangers.

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