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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Westvoe farm burn to the ground?
(a) Germans bomb it.
(b) Its owner, Louis Stewart, sets it on fire.
(c) Lighting strikes it.
(d) The construction crews need to level the buildings.

2. Who is Billie Holm?
(a) Head of the construction gang.
(b) Press gang leader.
(c) Porter and odd job man for James MacTavish.
(d) Lawyer for British government.

3. Who is the most lazy and useless boy who ever went to Norday school?
(a) Bob Bush.
(b) Mr. Simon.
(c) Thorfinn Ragnarson.
(d) Matthew Ragnarson.

4. What do the Norweigan sailors look like?
(a) Heavy red-faced, dark haired men.
(b) Black skin and golden eyes.
(c) Blue eyes and golden hair.
(d) Small, crooked backed men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Jock Seatter do in Norday?

2. What does Matilda Kerrigan do to the three surveyors?

3. How does Thorfinn deal with the tension in his family in chapter 6?

4. What is a press-gang?

5. What is this "crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste" that George Mackay Brown speaks of in chapter 6?

(see the answer key)

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