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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Captain Candless believe it is the ship whose name Tool recognizes?
(a) That ship is supposed to be in South America.
(b) That ship is supposed to be in Russia.
(c) That ship is supposed to be in Japan.
(d) That ship is supposed to be in dry dock.

2. What happens when Candless leaps on board and orders the crew to surrender?
(a) The Pole Star crew surrenders.
(b) He is sprayed with gunshot.
(c) He is met with silence.
(d) Nita runs forward.

3. What does Nailer think about as he is creeping toward Blue Eyes?
(a) Being free of the island.
(b) Being captive on the island for the rest of his life.
(c) All the violence he has seen in his young life.
(d) All the love he has received from Pima and her mother.

4. What does Captain Candless hand Nailer?
(a) Some money.
(b) A pistol.
(c) A knife.
(d) A letter.

5. What did Nita's father learn about Pyce?
(a) He was mismanaging funds from the business.
(b) He beats his wife regularly.
(c) He was not who he said he was.
(d) He sold secrets to another corporation.

6. What weapon does Nailer have left?
(a) A billy club.
(b) None.
(c) A machete he took from Blue Eyes.
(d) His short fighting knife.

7. What does Nailer know he can never do now after the melee on the beach?
(a) Gain his father's approval.
(b) Become a Lucky Strike boat owner.
(c) Return to the scrap yards.
(d) Claim any of the salvage.

8. What is in Uppadaya?
(a) A scavenge house.
(b) An illegal slave market.
(c) An illegal drug market.
(d) Where Richard is going to send word to Nita's people.

9. Which boats in the harbor belong to Nita's father's fleet?
(a) One.
(b) Several of them.
(c) Almost all were originally her father's.
(d) None of them.

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

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

12. What does Sadna ask of Tool?
(a) To protect the children on their journey.
(b) To start a fire and burn Blue Eyes' body.
(c) To make it look like Blue Eyes was guilty and deserved death.
(d) To kill Richard.

13. What does Nailer do as he leaps off the ship's mechanism?
(a) Hits his father in the face with his boots.
(b) Slashes at his father with his knife.
(c) Yells at Nita to run.
(d) Pulls the lever down on the machine.

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

15. Who comes running into the shack when Blue Eyes is about to blind one of Nailer's eyes?
(a) Richard.
(b) Sadna and her crew.
(c) No one.
(d) Nita.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nailer beg of Richard?

2. Why do Nailer and Nita grow closer?

3. What does Nailer notice that frightens him?

4. What does Tool say about blood?

5. Who does Nailer bring to be with him?

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