Practice Quiz for Stowaway by Karen Hesse

Why had Nick’s Father apprenticed him to the Butcher?

1. He wanted Nick to overcome his soft heartedness.

2. It was the only way to pay off his debt to the Butcher.

3. He wanted to prevent Nick from “running with bad boys.”

4. It was the only way to get Nick “book learning.”

Mr. Banks killed many animals because?

1. It allowed him to study them inside and out.

2. He loved to kill things

3. He wanted to prove what a sharp shooter he was.

4. It was his favorite sport.

What did Nick do after he read the lies in Mr. Bootie’s journal?

1. He told Captain that Mr. Bootie had written “untruthful things.”

2. He wrote “Evil communications corrupt good” across the journal.

3. He told the crew that Mr. Bootie had written “untruthful things” about them.

4. He stole the journal and showed it to Surgeon Monkhouse.

Captain named one place Young Nick’s Head because

1. Nick was the first to sight land.

2. Its red trees reminded him of Nick’s hair.

3. Nick came out of hiding at that place

4. Nick almost “lost his head” to the cannibals there.

What stirred Nick to a “book hunger” that he had “never experienced” before?

1. Realizing that the best jobs on ships were given to learned men.

2. Watching Isaac Smith struggle to impress the gentlemen with his reading. 3. Hearing Captain say that only “book learners” can become captains.

4. Watching Samuel Evans’s determination to learn to read.

On New Continent, why did Captain’s party take Tupia and Tarheto everywhere?

1. They were the strongest oarsmen.

2. They could accurately draw the newly discovered plants

3. The spoke the languages of the natives.

4. They were the most trustworthy crew members.

What did Mr. Bootie do when he caught Nick teaching Samuel to read?

1. He tied Nick to a chair and ducked him into the ocean three times?

2. He locked Nick inside the wild hog’s pen.

3. He sold Lord Grey to Raja.

4. He wrote a letter to Nick’s father informing him of Nick’s location.

The “ball of wool” that help to save the ship when it ran upon corral was______?

1. The sheep that helped the panicking crew remain calm.

2. Ginger Bigfoot, whose shriek alerted the men of the danger.

3. The binder twine that was used to fix the pump.

4. The fothering sail that help plug the hole in the ship. (fothering – a piece of canvas filled with twine and other materials used to plug a hole causing a leak in a ship.)

Nick called Batavia “an evil” place because______?

1. Its native set fire to Mr. Banks’ plants.

2. The crew was devastated by disease there.

3. He witnessed the evils of civilization there.

4. The natives practiced cannibalism.

What was the one thing Nick planned to do before he looked up Mr. Banks?

1. Honour his contract with the Butcher.

2. Help Samuel earn his discharge papers. 3. Learn to draw like Mr. Parkinson.

4. Sail once more with Mr. Perry.