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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who brings Thorfinn his supplies on the deserted Norday Island now that everyone else has gone?
(a) Mansie Drever, the Selskay fisherman.
(b) Ragna Magnarson.
(c) Sophie, on the horse Selkie.
(d) Supplies are dropped by air.

2. What do the workmen set up in the Gleb hayfield?
(a) Airport.
(b) Beer canteen.
(c) Lottery station.
(d) Television antennae.

3. What upsets the farmers about the arrival of the workmen?
(a) Young women want to marry the workmen.
(b) Dust is raised in the construction process.
(c) The workmen are very lazy.
(d) Farms are being taken by the government.

4. What do the Scottish and Irish laborers do when they arrive?
(a) Erect village of Nissen huts.
(b) Cover a beach with concrete.
(c) Take over the main buildings and farm.
(d) Evict all the Norday residents.

5. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?
(a) Full of pomp and circumstance.
(b) A glorious death on the fields of battle.
(c) Living out his years as a crofter on Norday Island.
(d) Becoming a great writer of romance novels.

6. What do the three young lady typists bring with them to Norday?
(a) Radios.
(b) Laser telescopes.
(c) Typewriters.
(d) Cell phones.

7. Who is it that Sophie and Thorfinn decide will be the poet?
(a) Thorfinn.
(b) Their son.
(c) Sophie.
(d) The reader.

8. What is Matilda Kerrigan known as in Norday Island?
(a) Tall as a tree.
(b) Long-suffering wife.
(c) Hasty woman.
(d) Bold as brass.

9. In chapter 7 what appears just off the shore of Norday?
(a) German man-of-war.
(b) Flocks of crows.
(c) Huge cargo ship.
(d) Submarines.

10. What is Elphinstone's role on Norday?
(a) Pastor.
(b) Laird's factor.
(c) Sheriff of Norday.
(d) Teacher.

11. Where does the Norday laird of the 1930s spend most of his time?
(a) Sailing around the world.
(b) Greece.
(c) Norday Island.
(d) London.

12. What is a press-gang?
(a) Wine makers.
(b) Entertainers.
(c) Military recruiters.
(d) Thieving marauders.

13. How does the laird describe Norday Island to his factor in chapter 5?
(a) "This precious stone set in a silver sea."
(b) "A breath of air past fog."
(c) "The lark at dawn arising."
(d) "Sweet sessions of Syrian thought."

14. Who is Major Schneider?
(a) Old friend of John Evans who likes Thorfin's writing.
(b) German commander of prison camp and mentor to Thorfinn.
(c) British capitalist who produces Thorfinn's first book.
(d) English lord who supplies Thorfinn with paper.

15. Who burns down the original Hall?
(a) King George II's sailors.
(b) The laird on a drunken ramble.
(c) Bonnie Prince Charles.
(d) The Jacobian army.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has the Reverend Hector Drummond arrived at Norday from?

2. What is the oddest thing the hippie families try to grow on the deserted Norday Island?

3. What is a croft?

4. Who arrives on the Raven one summer day in 1937?`

5. After Tina Lyde is chased off by Thorfinn's sister in chapter 6 what does Tina do?

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