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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Quoyle's favorite child?
(a) Jane.
(b) Quoyle.
(c) Dick.
(d) Petal.

2. Why is Gaze Island important to Billy?
(a) His father is buried there.
(b) His wife and child are buried there.
(c) He owns land there.
(d) He spent his honeymoon there.

3. Why does Quoyle think he might have to take Wavey to the prairies?
(a) The climate might be better for her.
(b) So she will be far from memories of her husband's death.
(c) He'd like to try farming.
(d) So that Herry can go to a special school.

4. Of which type of figurative language is this an example: 'The bay was an aluminum tray dotted with paper boats.'?
(a) Transfiguration.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Onomatopoeia

5. The shag is an alternative word for which bird?
(a) The cormorant.
(b) The albatross.
(c) The Mother Carey's chicken.
(d) The puffin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence confirms to Agnis that she had seen a man close by?

2. Whose ancestor resorted to cannibalism?

3. What visual effect does fog have, according to Billy?

4. What is the outcome of the conflict over the piece on oil tankers?

5. What has Skipper Will invented?

(see the answer key)

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