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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?
(a) Antique furniture for their home.
(b) A tractor and other farm equipment.
(c) Bees and bee keeping equipment.
(d) A Quick Bake cast iron oven for their kitchen.

2. Why did Jack McClelland decide not to join Mowat for another season of sailing?
(a) His family and friends forbade it.
(b) He was moving to Seattle.
(c) He was no longer interested in sailing.
(d) He had taken ill over the winter.

3. What did Jack do for most of the Happy Adventure's first voyage?
(a) Worked the sails.
(b) Tried to start the stubborn engine.
(c) Pumped water out of the leaking boat.
(d) Poured rum for the two men.

4. Who was Martin Dutin, and what was his job during the repainting of the Happy Adventure?
(a) He was the fisherman who came from Grand Bruit.
(b) He was Theo's son-in-law and the Chef de Protocol.
(c) He was the ship's painter and the cook.
(d) He was the craftsman who rebuild the ship before painting.

5. When was the engine aboard Mowat's boat built?
(a) In the 1950s.
(b) In the 1920s.
(c) In the 1960s.
(d) In the 1940s.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the crew decide to sail the boat after her christening?

2. What was the major crop on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland?

3. What came special delivery to Mowat and Jack as they worked on their broken boat engine?

4. Where did the men begin having troubles with the Happy Adventure?

5. What did the Happy Adventure come within fifty yards of hitting in the fog?

(see the answer key)

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