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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Ragna courting in chapter 6?
(a) Stalwart Inqvest.
(b) Selkie Downs.
(c) Ransom Terry.
(d) Andrew Rosey.

3. Where does the Norday laird of the 1930s spend most of his time?
(a) Sailing around the world.
(b) Norday Island.
(c) London.
(d) Greece.

4. What is the Kitty Fea?
(a) Lobster boat.
(b) Warship.
(c) Ale house.
(d) Harbor store.

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

6. Who does Thorfinn assume has stayed on the deserted island?
(a) Janet Olafson.
(b) Matthew Ragnarson.
(c) Jimmy Greeno.
(d) One of the hippie families.

7. On what boat does the present laird, Mr. Harcourt-Smithers, arrive in chapter 5?
(a) Solan Goose.
(b) Raven.
(c) Sea King.
(d) Scallop.

8. What three chocolate bars are mentioned in chapter 6's description of the festival celebration?
(a) Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree.
(b) Milk, Dark and Semi-Sweet.
(c) Hershey, Ghiradelhi and Snickers.
(d) LIndt, Swiss and Bardor.

9. Who takes over the laird's Hall?
(a) Wing commander and military officers.
(b) King George II field marshal.
(c) Construction crew pub.
(d) Secretarial pool.

10. What boat is being fixed up at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Matthew Ragnaron's Seascape.
(b) Jacob Olafson's Scallop.
(c) Thorfinn Ragnarson's Selkie.
(d) James MacTavish's Rivals.

11. What does the Norday pastor pick up "beside the ocean of time" in chapter 5?
(a) Broch stones.
(b) Jewels.
(c) Fossils.
(d) Wisdom.

12. How does the laird describe Norday Island to his factor in chapter 5?
(a) "The lark at dawn arising."
(b) "Sweet sessions of Syrian thought."
(c) "A breath of air past fog."
(d) "This precious stone set in a silver sea."

13. What does Matthew Ragnarson's dog Stalwart do when the workmen demolish Ingle's fence?
(a) Hides in the barn.
(b) Bites one of them.
(c) Tears the fence down for them.
(d) Runs into the sea.

14. Who burns down the original Hall?
(a) King George II's sailors.
(b) Bonnie Prince Charles.
(c) The laird on a drunken ramble.
(d) The Jacobian army.

15. What are the villagers celebrating in the summer of 1937?
(a) End of World War II.
(b) Emancipation of Scotland from Ireland.
(c) Norday's independence from Orkney.
(d) Coronation of King George and Queen Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one action Thorfinn takes in chapter 7?

2. What dates are carved on Jacob Olafson's stone?

3. What awkward announcement does Matthew Ragnarson make to his children in chapter 6?

4. Who is the muse chapter 5 is named for?

5. In chapter 7 what appears just off the shore of Norday?

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