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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Scottish and Irish laborers do when they arrive?
(a) Take over the main buildings and farm.
(b) Erect village of Nissen huts.
(c) Evict all the Norday residents.
(d) Cover a beach with concrete.

2. Who brings Thorfinn his supplies on the deserted Norday Island now that everyone else has gone?
(a) Ragna Magnarson.
(b) Sophie, on the horse Selkie.
(c) Mansie Drever, the Selskay fisherman.
(d) Supplies are dropped by air.

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

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

5. Where is Matthew Ragnarson buried?
(a) The family plot on Norday.
(b) On Selskay where he had moved.
(c) At sea.
(d) On Orkney Island at the kirk.

6. Where does Thorfinn see peat smoke rising from on what he thinks is a deserted Norday?
(a) Glebe.
(b) Ingle.
(c) Smylder.
(d) Swinhurst.

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

8. What two Norday inhabitants seem untouched by the chaos and destruction of the aerodrome workers?
(a) Jacob and Janet Olafson.
(b) Winnie Swona and her grandmother up at Swinhurst.
(c) Thorfinn and Matthew Ragnarson.
(d) Billie Holm and James MacTavish.

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

10. What is the present Mr. Harcourt-Smithers known for?
(a) Religious devotion.
(b) His ability to drink great quantities of ale.
(c) Being inarticulate.
(d) Massive generosity.

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

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

13. How might the pastors of Norday Island be described?
(a) Eccentric.
(b) Stellar leaders.
(c) Good farmers.
(d) Politicians.

14. What type of book does Thorfinn write while in prison?
(a) Non fiction essay.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Mystery novel.
(d) Romance novel.

15. Who is the muse chapter 5 is named for?
(a) Ragna.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Broch angel.
(d) Goddess of wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who from Norday volunteers to fight for King George II against the French?

2. When does the Bishop Usher set the date of Creation?

3. Who is Ragna courting in chapter 6?

4. What does Matthew Ragnarson's dog Stalwart do when the workmen demolish Ingle's fence?

5. Where does Thorfinn spend most of the war?

(see the answer keys)

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