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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Among other ailments, attorney Nels Gundersson
(a) Is blind in one eye
(b) Is missing one arm
(c) Is partially crippled
(d) Is partially deaf

2. Ishmael Chambers returned from the war
(a) Unscathed
(b) Missing an arm
(c) Unable to walk
(d) With brain injuries

3. In the time of the Japanese islanders' grandparents, the U.S. census
(a) Gave the Japanese joke names
(b) Reported a higher number of Japanese than were there
(c) Ignored the Japanese population
(d) Renamed all the Japanese with American names

4. The darkness in Carl Heine's personality, as well as in Horace Whaley's is a result of
(a) Working on the island since childhood
(b) Mistrust and suspicion
(c) Fighting in World War II
(d) Fishing and eking out a living

5. Nels opens up the possibility that the wound on Carl's head could have come from
(a) A broken mast
(b) A fall before he went over
(c) A drunken stagger
(d) Propulsion rather than a blow

Short Answer Questions

1. Carl Heine is described as being

2. The weather conditions on the water on the night of the murder are

3. Virginia Gatewood looked, to Ishmael, like

4. In the courtroom, the Japanese attendees sat

5. After the kiss on the beach, Ishmael finds himself

(see the answer key)

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