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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Thomas Vass?
(a) Sophie's intended groom.
(b) Laird's uncle.
(c) Village smithy.
(d) Laird's factor, who manages his property and business.

2. 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.

3. What awkward announcement does Matthew Ragnarson make to his children in chapter 6?
(a) He plans to marry again.
(b) Ragna is asked to leave immediately.
(c) Thorfinn will inherit the farm alone.
(d) He has cancer.

4. What are the two big houses on Norday Island?
(a) Minister's manse and laird's hall.
(b) King George's summer home and Isa's farmhouse.
(c) Town hall and village inn.
(d) Broch and Smylder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Norday pastor pick up "beside the ocean of time" in chapter 5?

2. Who does Jacob Olafson leave his boat Scallop to?

3. What reaction do the seals have to the noise and chaos of the workers on Norday?

4. In the actual history what happens to Prince Charles Edward after he escapes?

5. What type of book does Thorfinn write while in prison?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Winnie Swona do when some of her hens disappeared from the henhouse during the aerodrome building?

2. What does Thorfinn take with him when he is liberated from the German war camp?

3. When the workmen are sent to build the aerodrome on Norday Island they are quite unhappy. What cheers them up?

4. What does Thomas Vass think about the arrival of work crews and machinery on Norday Island during the war?

5. What does Thorfinn do when he returns to the island after the war?

6. What kind of food does Mara the seal wife like to eat?

7. What is happening to both the laird's house and the minister's manse in chapter 5?

8. Why was the present laird, Mr. Harcourt-Smithers, so much poorer than his forefathers?

9. How is the story Mr. Simon is telling the class (early in chapter 5) relevant to the fantasy sequence in which Thorfinn marries a seal wife?

10. Who is Sophie?

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