The Shipping News Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Shipping News Quiz | Four Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What group does Reverend Stain belong to?
(a) Opus Dei.
(b) The Freemasons.
(c) Dignified Exit.
(d) Dignified Burial Society.

2. What is part of the managing editor's job?
(a) Installing heating for the building.
(b) Sub-editing.
(c) Doing the advertisements.
(d) Doing the police rounds.

3. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?
(a) Primitive and ignorant.
(b) Musical.
(c) Reversion to an earlier type.
(d) Being unable to speak.

4. How does Quoyle get the list of ships?
(a) He phones the shipping companies.
(b) He asks people at the seafront.
(c) He visits the harbormaster's office.
(d) He phones the harbormaster.

5. Who introduces Quoyle and Wavey?
(a) Agnis Hamm.
(b) Bunny.
(c) Partridge.
(d) Billy Pretty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Quoyle doing when Mr Shovel calls him?

2. Where is the Melvilles' home?

3. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .

4. Why is it claimed that biologists have visited the Tough Baby?

5. How old was the harbor-master when he first went to sea?

(see the answer key)

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