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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men of Norday clean their pipes with?
(a) Political argument.
(b) Saltwater peter.
(c) Seagull feathers.
(d) Lobster claws.

2. What do most islanders feel about Olafson's death?
(a) Enraged.
(b) Happy.
(c) Confused.
(d) Sorry.

3. Where has the Reverend Hector Drummond arrived at Norday from?
(a) A monastery in Italy.
(b) Irish kirk college.
(c) A big church in Glasgow.
(d) The far reaches of Northern Canada.

4. Who is the island's only "person of quality?"
(a) Thorfinn Ragnarson.
(b) Bishop Michael of Orkney.
(c) Mr. Harcourt-Smithers, the laird.
(d) Isa Estquoy, the sheriff.

5. What does Matilda Kerrigan do to the three surveyors?
(a) Invites them to stay with her.
(b) Shoots them with a rifle.
(c) Drowns them in the ocean.
(d) Attacks their equipment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prior of the monastery feed Sir MacTavish and his squire?

2. Who is the muse chapter 5 is named for?

3. What are the two big houses on Norday Island?

4. Where does Thorfinn wake up at the end of chapter 1?

5. Who is Ragna courting in chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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