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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jessie want the cook to give him when the wind dies?
(a) Fruit.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Water.
(d) Beer.

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

3. What stops the quarreling on the ship while in the Bight of Benin?
(a) The first boatlad of ships.
(b) Jessie's song on the fife.
(c) A full moon.
(d) A gun fired by Spark.

4. What is Jessie told he will be doing on the ship?
(a) Cleaning the cabins.
(b) Catching rats.
(c) Playing his fife.
(d) Helping the cook.

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

6. What is Purvis's job on the ship?
(a) Sails man.
(b) Steward.
(c) Quartermaster.
(d) Galley chief.

7. What does Jessie notice in the galley after the wind dies?
(a) A large barrel of coffee grinds.
(b) Stacks of wooden bowls.
(c) Chains.
(d) A huge cauldron.

8. What is the horrid smell on the ship?
(a) Salt and vinegar.
(b) Blood, sweat and tears.
(c) Chloride of lime.
(d) Tar.

9. How old is Jessie when he is put on the ship?
(a) 15.
(b) 14.
(c) 13.
(d) 12.

10. How old was Jessie when his father died?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 7.

11. Who takes Jessie to see the Captain?
(a) Stout.
(b) Claudias.
(c) Benjamin.
(d) Purvis.

12. How many homes were destroyed by the fire Jessie saw when he was little?
(a) 107.
(b) 207.
(c) 177.
(d) 77.

13. What is the first question Jessie was asked on the ship?
(a) How old he was.
(b) Where he was from.
(c) What his name was.
(d) What he knew about ships.

14. Where does Jessie live at the beginning of the book?
(a) Biloxi.
(b) Miami.
(c) Baton Rouge.
(d) New Orleans.

15. Where is Jessie's bed on the ship?
(a) In the tween decks.
(b) In the forecastle.
(c) In the galley.
(d) In the hold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men who take Jessie say he is worthless without?

2. Who sells the slaves from Africa to the slavers?

3. What is the name of the ship Jessie is taken to?

4. Why is Jessie so hesitant about being on a slave ship?

5. Whom is Jessie sent to borrow candles from?

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