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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Matilda Kerrigan do to the three surveyors?
(a) Drowns them in the ocean.
(b) Attacks their equipment.
(c) Shoots them with a rifle.
(d) Invites them to stay with her.

3. What is this "crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste" that George Mackay Brown speaks of in chapter 6?
(a) Angels who fall from heights.
(b) Our body.
(c) Insubstantial pastry.
(d) No purpose in life.

4. What is Thorfinn working on at the start of chapter 8?
(a) Plans for Norday's recovery.
(b) Poems about sunsets.
(c) Lobster creels.
(d) Stories about kings and queens.

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

6. Who is Thomas Vass?
(a) Laird's uncle.
(b) Sophie's intended groom.
(c) Laird's factor, who manages his property and business.
(d) Village smithy.

7. How many Norday men are put on the list to be sent as seamen on His Majesty's men-of-war?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 12.
(c) 150.
(d) 50.

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

9. What awkward announcement does Matthew Ragnarson make to his children in chapter 6?
(a) He has cancer.
(b) He plans to marry again.
(c) Thorfinn will inherit the farm alone.
(d) Ragna is asked to leave immediately.

10. Whose house does Thorfinn come back to in chapter 8?
(a) Ingle.
(b) Jimmy Greeno's beach shack.
(c) Laird's Hall.
(d) Swinehurst.

11. Who does Jacob Olafson leave his boat Scallop to?
(a) Janet Olafson.
(b) Geordie Wylie.
(c) Howie Ayre.
(d) Thorfinn Ragnarson.

12. What does Thorfinn see, climbing hill Fea against the blue and white of the sky, in chapter 5?
(a) His mother's ghost.
(b) A red fox.
(c) A flock of geese flying east.
(d) A yellow haired girl on a horse.

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

14. When does the Bishop Usher set the date of Creation?
(a) 4004 BC.
(b) 10,000 BC.
(c) 1 million years before Christ.
(d) 2 AD.

15. Who from Norday volunteers to fight for King George II against the French?
(a) Thorfinn Ragnarson.
(b) Elijah Ayre.
(c) John Elphinston.
(d) Tobin Raffel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two Norday inhabitants seem untouched by the chaos and destruction of the aerodrome workers?

2. How old is Thorfinn when he leaves school?

3. What does Winnie Swona do when someone tries to steal her hens?

4. Why is the present laird so poor?

5. What is the Kitty Fea?

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