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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. Upon what is Nailer tugging?
(a) A water pipe.
(b) A huge weed.
(c) A burlap sack.
(d) A copper wire.

2. Where is Nailer crawling?
(a) In an attic.
(b) Through a corn field.
(c) Under a house.
(d) Through a narrow tunnel.

3. How does Nailer manage to avoid a beating from his father?
(a) Nailer tells him that Bapi wants to talk to the father.
(b) Nailer runs quickly to his room.
(c) Nailer tells him that he was promoted.
(d) Nailer gives him a bottle of liquor.

4. What do Nailer and Pima find in the engineering room?
(a) Three drowned half men.
(b) A drowned dog.
(c) A live dog.
(d) Two dead men.

5. Who is Nita Chaudhury?
(a) Lucky Girl's nanny who died on the ship.
(b) Lucky Girl's real name.
(c) Lucky Girl's aunt.
(d) Lucky Girl's mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do they find bodies?

2. What does the girl say that indicates she understands her situation?

3. What does Pima think is missing on Lucky Girl?

4. What does no one take seriously about Sloth?

5. What does it appear his father has done besides gotten drunk?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nailer get out of the oil and the ship?

2. How does Nailer feel about Richard, and what saves Nailer from a beating when he gets home after his oil experience?

3. What do the three do the next morning?

4. Why are Pima and Nailer shocked by what they find on the clipper ship?

5. Describe the ritual of making the girl a crew member.

6. What do Nailer and Pima find in the jungle and what is their first reaction?

7. What do Pima and Nailer find in the galley that makes it obvious that this is a massive Lucky Strike?

8. What does Nailer do immediately after the blood ritual is completed?

9. Why do the children work so hard when Bapi appears?

10. What does the girl ask Nailer when she wakes and what is his reaction?

(see the answer keys)

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