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Q. What does Bacigalupi want to communicate about family in the last chapter?
You choose your family.
You don't choose your family.
Family is always there for you.
Family will lie to you.
Q. What does Nita and Nailer's relationship prove about friendship?
Friends can easily betray one another.
Friendship can transcend class boundaries.
Blood oaths are what make friends good friends.
Friends always agree on everything.
Q. What does Tool think about violence?
Humans should use violence to get ahead in the world.
Violence can solve many problems.
Humans are good at tearing one another down and destruction.
There's honor in fighting an unwinnable fight.
Q. What causes natural events to become more intense in the novel?
Human development
Aliens
Corporations
Ship breaking
Q. How does Nailer know that the friendship he has with Nita is real toward the end of the book?
She makes fun of him for being uneducated.
She fulfills her promise to free him, Sadna, and Pima from ship breaking.
She swims away from him as the Pole Star is sinking.
She prevents him from helping Tool win a fight.