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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is the voyage supposed to take?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 3 months.

2. What will all the sailors carry when the slaves are on board?
(a) Pistols.
(b) Clubs.
(c) Whips.
(d) Knives.

3. What does the Captain call Jessie?
(a) Bullet.
(b) Bollucks.
(c) Bollweevil.
(d) Ballinchain.

4. What does Jessie say he never got used to on the ship?
(a) The smell.
(b) The tight quarters.
(c) The movement.
(d) The food.

5. What causes Jessie to get breathless on the ship at one point?
(a) His fear of the captain.
(b) A blow to the head by a sail.
(c) His desire to be off the ship.
(d) A lack of water.

6. Who is Jessie?
(a) The narrator's brother.
(b) The antagonist.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) The narrator.

7. What does the Captain do when he first meets Jessie?
(a) Throttles him.
(b) Whips him.
(c) Bites his ear.
(d) Slaps his face.

8. How long has Jessie been at sea when the wind dies?
(a) 5 weeks.
(b) 4 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 2 weeks.

9. Who does Jessie have little interaction with?
(a) Sparks.
(b) Joseph.
(c) The Captain.
(d) Curry.

10. How many slaves were for sale at the market at the beginning of the book?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 10.
(d) 8.

11. What is Jessie taken away in?
(a) A canvas sack.
(b) A potato sack.
(c) A barrel.
(d) A sail.

12. What is the name of the ship Jessie is taken to?
(a) The North Star.
(b) The Moonlight.
(c) The Star.
(d) The Midnight.

13. What does Jessie want to watch the cook do?
(a) Knead dough.
(b) Pluck a chicken.
(c) Butcher a cow.
(d) Percolate coffee.

14. What do the men on the ship start doing when the wind dies?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Quarreling.
(d) Drinking.

15. Who tells Jessie about the danger of being caught in the slave trade?
(a) Captain.
(b) Sharkey.
(c) Grime.
(d) Purvis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jessie call to his father in his dreams?

2. How long did the captain Purvis knew trade slaves before being caught?

3. What is the horrid smell on the ship?

4. What is the name of the man who paid Jessie earlier in the day?

5. Whom does Jessie see steal an egg one night?

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