<p>Practice Quiz for Stowaway by Karen Hesse</p><p>Why had Nick’s Father apprenticed him to the Butcher?</p><p>1. He wanted Nick to overcome his soft heartedness.</p><p>2. It was the only way to pay off his debt to the Butcher.</p><p>3. He wanted to prevent Nick from “running with bad boys.”</p><p>4. It was the only way to get Nick “book learning.”</p><p>Mr. Banks killed many animals because?</p><p>1. It allowed him to study them inside and out.</p><p>2. He loved to kill things</p><p>3. He wanted to prove what a sharp shooter he was.</p><p>4. It was his favorite sport.</p><p>What did Nick do after he read the lies in Mr. Bootie’s journal?</p><p>1. He told Captain that Mr. Bootie had written “untruthful things.”</p><p>2. He wrote “Evil communications corrupt good” across the journal.</p><p>3. He told the crew that Mr. Bootie had written “untruthful things” about them.</p><p>4. He stole the journal and showed it to Surgeon Monkhouse.</p><p>Captain named one place Young Nick’s Head because</p><p>1. Nick was the first to sight land.</p><p>2. Its red trees reminded him of Nick’s hair.</p><p>3. Nick came out of hiding at that place</p><p>4. Nick almost “lost his head” to the cannibals there.</p><p>What stirred Nick to a “book hunger” that he had “never experienced” before?</p><p>1. Realizing that the best jobs on ships were given to learned men.</p><p>2. Watching Isaac Smith struggle to impress the gentlemen with his reading. 3. Hearing Captain say that only “book learners” can become captains.</p><p>4. Watching Samuel Evans’s determination to learn to read.</p><p>On New Continent, why did Captain’s party take Tupia and Tarheto everywhere?</p><p>1. They were the strongest oarsmen.</p><p>2. They could accurately draw the newly discovered plants</p><p>3. The spoke the languages of the natives.</p><p>4. They were the most trustworthy crew members.</p><p>What did Mr. Bootie do when he caught Nick teaching Samuel to read?</p><p>1. He tied Nick to a chair and ducked him into the ocean three times?</p><p>2. He locked Nick inside the wild hog’s pen.</p><p>3. He sold Lord Grey to Raja.</p><p>4. He wrote a letter to Nick’s father informing him of Nick’s location.</p><p>The “ball of wool” that help to save the ship when it ran upon corral was______?</p><p>1. The sheep that helped the panicking crew remain calm.</p><p>2. Ginger Bigfoot, whose shriek alerted the men of the danger.</p><p>3. The binder twine that was used to fix the pump.</p><p>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.)</p><p>Nick called Batavia “an evil” place because______?</p><p>1. Its native set fire to Mr. Banks’ plants.</p><p>2. The crew was devastated by disease there.</p><p>3. He witnessed the evils of civilization there.</p><p>4. The natives practiced cannibalism.</p><p>What was the one thing Nick planned to do before he looked up Mr. Banks?</p><p>1. Honour his contract with the Butcher.</p><p>2. Help Samuel earn his discharge papers. 3. Learn to draw like Mr. Parkinson.</p><p>4. Sail once more with Mr. Perry.</p><p>5.</p>