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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Nita say they need to go?
(a) About 100 kilometers west.
(b) About forty kilometers north from where they are.
(c) To see a friend in Pontacharine.
(d) The other side of the lake.

2. What does Nailer convince Knot to do?
(a) Let Nailer run errands.
(b) Ask the Captain for another job.
(c) Let Nailer maintain the fires.
(d) Give Nailer reading lessons.

3. What does Nailer think is the best option for Pima, Nita, and himself?
(a) Flee to Houston.
(b) Flee to Orlando.
(c) Try to kill Richard's crew and Richard.
(d) Flee to Orleans.

4. Why is it going to be very difficult for Nailer to work in the machine room?
(a) They do not need anyone in the way.
(b) He can't read.
(c) He is not tall enough to reach the levers.
(d) He's not strong enough to pull the levers.

5. What do the travelers realize when they check their pockets?
(a) They have enough money to get them across the lake.
(b) They are full of muck and debris.
(c) They have very little money.
(d) They have no identification.

6. What alliance does Nailer fear may have happened?
(a) Between Nita and Pyce.
(b) Between Richard and Bapti.
(c) Between Richard and Pyce.
(d) None.

7. Where is Nailer given a job?
(a) As a dock worker.
(b) In one of Nita's father's factories.
(c) As a supervisor back on the island.
(d) On board the Dauntless.

8. What does Nita tell Nailer when he wakes?
(a) Nailer's been unconscious for several days.
(b) Richard has left the island to find Lucky Girl's father.
(c) Richard is dead.
(d) Lucky Girl is ill also.

9. What happens as Tool is walking towards Nita and Nailer?
(a) He is knifed in the back.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is attacked by Richard's two half-men.
(d) He is knocked over by a cart.

10. What does Nailer decide to do?
(a) Find a way to row out to the clipper.
(b) Try to ambush and kill Richard.
(c) Try to circle around and find out what happened to Tool.
(d) Swim out to Nita's father's boat.

11. What has Richard been forcing down Nailer?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Food.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Water.

12. How much had the crew been betting?
(a) 10 red Chinese.
(b) 50 Blue British.
(c) 10 Green Canadian.
(d) 50 red Chinese.

13. What does Richard beg Nailer to do?
(a) Forget all the bad times.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Tell Richard Nailer loves him.
(d) Set Richard free.

14. Who does Nailer bring to be with him?
(a) Bapti.
(b) No one.
(c) Sadna and Pima.
(d) Tool.

15. What does Pyce think Nita will do for him?
(a) Look favorably upon Pyce brother for a CEO position in one of the companies.
(b) Marry his oldest son and cemet Pyce's place in the family business.
(c) Convince her father to let Pyce run the Tawain end of the business.
(d) Help him blackmail Patel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What threatens to take over the buildings in the area?

2. Why do Nailer and Nita grow closer?

3. What ship does Candless decide to go after?

4. What does Nailer see across the lake one day?

5. What do Nailer, Tool and, Nita get on the docks?

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