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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Old Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comes out of the trees when the boys wake up on the shore?
(a) A man.
(b) Some geese.
(c) A chicken.
(d) Some children.

2. What does Purvis say happened to all the men on the ship in his horror story?
(a) They went dumb.
(b) They went blind.
(c) They began fearing water.
(d) They went deaf.

3. What is Jessie most afraid of as he is taken through the marshes?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) Not making it back home.
(c) Cottonmouth snakes.
(d) Alligators.

4. Whom does Jessie see steal an egg one night?
(a) A woman.
(b) A rat.
(c) A hooded figure.
(d) A child.

5. How does Jessie start to feel about the slaves after he plays for them a few times?
(a) He hates them.
(b) He pities them.
(c) He ignores their existence.
(d) He loves them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the ship leave the shore at night time?

2. How do Jessie and the African boy help the man who saved them?

3. Who makes a whip with nine cords?

4. What are the latrine buckets full of when Jessie empties them after seeing a flying fish?

5. What shocks Jessie most about the ship?

(see the answer key)

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