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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why type of car does Thomas Vass drive?
(a) Austin Martin.
(b) Horse and buggy.
(c) Mercedes.
(d) Ford.

2. What is Mr. Abernethy passionately against?
(a) Tory government.
(b) Strong drink.
(c) Taxes.
(d) Sin.

3. 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.

4. In chapter 7 what appears just off the shore of Norday?
(a) German man-of-war.
(b) Submarines.
(c) Huge cargo ship.
(d) Flocks of crows.

5. Where do the young Norday men hide from the military men and factor?
(a) Boats off shore.
(b) Caves.
(c) Cliffs of Dover.
(d) Laird's Hall.

6. In the actual history what happens to Prince Charles Edward after he escapes?
(a) He commits suicide rather than face execution.
(b) He marries a Russian Princess and lives in great splendor.
(c) He becomes the ruler of France.
(d) He lives a life of exile, disappointment, and alcoholism.

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

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

9. How many rooms does the laird's Hall have?
(a) 200.
(b) 450.
(c) 3.
(d) 20.

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

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

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

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

14. Who is it that Sophie and Thorfinn decide will be the poet?
(a) Their son.
(b) Thorfinn.
(c) Sophie.
(d) The reader.

15. Where does Thorfinn spend most of the war?
(a) Stalag 29B in Bavaria.
(b) Fighting on the Russian front.
(c) Hiding in the caves of Norday.
(d) Writing code for the British military.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jimmy Greenay save from drowning in chapter 7?

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

3. According to author Brown, what does the real self seek?

4. What has Thorfinn come back from the war to find in Norday?

5. What type of music do the workmen play?

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