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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Ragna courting in chapter 6?
(a) Selkie Downs.
(b) Andrew Rosey.
(c) Stalwart Inqvest.
(d) Ransom Terry.
2. Who generally rules the manse and the pastor on Norday Island?
(a) Sheriff.
(b) Board of Trustees at the Kirk.
(c) Minister's wife.
(d) Congregation.
3. What are the names of Mr. Harcourt-Smither's granddaughters?
(a) Debbie and Penny.
(b) Mara and Vass.
(c) Ragna and Magdalena.
(d) Josie and Margaret.
4. How does Thorfinn deal with the tension in his family in chapter 6?
(a) Tries to bring everyone together to talk.
(b) Runs away and joins the army.
(c) Types a story out on his typewriter.
(d) Goes out into the fields and rides Selkie.
5. What piece of technology does Matthew Ragnarson bring home in chapter 6?
(a) Xerox machine.
(b) Telephone.
(c) Wireless set.
(d) Television.
6. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?
(a) Becoming a great writer of romance novels.
(b) A glorious death on the fields of battle.
(c) Full of pomp and circumstance.
(d) Living out his years as a crofter on Norday Island.
7. Where do the young Norday men hide from the military men and factor?
(a) Laird's Hall.
(b) Cliffs of Dover.
(c) Boats off shore.
(d) Caves.
8. What three chocolate bars are mentioned in chapter 6's description of the festival celebration?
(a) Milk, Dark and Semi-Sweet.
(b) Hershey, Ghiradelhi and Snickers.
(c) LIndt, Swiss and Bardor.
(d) Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree.
9. Who arrives on the Raven one summer day in 1937?`
(a) King George IV.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Thorfinn's mother and father.
(d) Three important looking men who were surveyors.
10. How many rooms does the laird's Hall have?
(a) 200.
(b) 3.
(c) 20.
(d) 450.
11. What reaction do the seals have to the noise and chaos of the workers on Norday?
(a) Crawl up onto the shore and die.
(b) Refuse to eat.
(c) Gather other seals and surround Norday.
(d) Swim away to another island.
12. In chapter 7 what appears just off the shore of Norday?
(a) Flocks of crows.
(b) Huge cargo ship.
(c) German man-of-war.
(d) Submarines.
13. What does the greatest English sage of the 18th century say, according to chapter 6?
(a) A writer will be born regardless of man's will.
(b) Every man has a book in him.
(c) There is no truth in fiction.
(d) All things end in dust.
14. Who brings Thorfinn his supplies on the deserted Norday Island now that everyone else has gone?
(a) Mansie Drever, the Selskay fisherman.
(b) Ragna Magnarson.
(c) Sophie, on the horse Selkie.
(d) Supplies are dropped by air.
15. Who takes over the laird's Hall?
(a) Secretarial pool.
(b) Construction crew pub.
(c) King George II field marshal.
(d) Wing commander and military officers.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Winnie Swona do when someone tries to steal her hens?
2. What does the Norday pastor pick up "beside the ocean of time" in chapter 5?
3. Why type of car does Thomas Vass drive?
4. What is the present Mr. Harcourt-Smithers known for?
5. Who is it that Sophie and Thorfinn decide will be the poet?
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