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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are iron rations?
(a) Heavy chunks of meat with salt.
(b) Thick red tomato soup.
(c) Flattened slices of beef.
(d) Oatcakes and water.

2. What is Thorfinn given in the prison camp to help him write?
(a) German dictionary.
(b) English teacher.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Typewriter.

3. What is Hector Drummond known for?
(a) Gardening expertise.
(b) Sailing and fishing.
(c) His beautiful, mellifluous voice.
(d) Excellent horseback riding skill.

4. Who arrives on the Raven one summer day in 1937?`
(a) Thorfinn's mother and father.
(b) Three important looking men who were surveyors.
(c) Sophie.
(d) King George IV.

5. What type of "disease" does Thorfinn have when the military comes looking for him?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Consumption.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Diabetes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Thorfinn see, climbing hill Fea against the blue and white of the sky, in chapter 5?

3. What leader shatters the English army at Stirling Castle?

4. Who brings Thorfinn his supplies on the deserted Norday Island now that everyone else has gone?

5. What happens when the Sea King ship is sighted?

(see the answer key)

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