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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Thomas Vass move after Norday is deserted?
(a) Boston.
(b) Kirkcaldy.
(c) Iran.
(d) London.

2. What brought Doctor Lamond down to the work site?
(a) The construction chief was ill with diptheria.
(b) A fire burned several men to death.
(c) Murphy and Watson had a fight.
(d) Consumption had began to be spread.

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

4. Why is the present laird so poor?
(a) He has chosen a life of poverty and contemplation.
(b) He spent his money on women and wine.
(c) Norday is poor.
(d) His grandfather had to sell all his land.

5. What is the oddest thing the hippie families try to grow on the deserted Norday Island?
(a) Rice.
(b) Palm trees.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Bamboo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is it that Sophie and Thorfinn decide will be the poet?

2. What is Thorfinn working on at the start of chapter 8?

3. What does the Norday pastor pick up "beside the ocean of time" in chapter 5?

4. How many Norday men are put on the list to be sent as seamen on His Majesty's men-of-war?

5. What does Thorfinn see, climbing hill Fea against the blue and white of the sky, in chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did the peace treaty between Chamberlain and Hitler stop the work on the Norday Aerodrome?

2. In chapter five one of the previous minister uses the title of the book when referring to fossils. What does he mean?

3. How does Mara react when a seal is captured and killed by the fishermen?

4. What kind of food does Mara the seal wife like to eat?

5. Why did the hippies finally leave Norday Island?

6. Why do the seal people rush back into the sea?

7. Why did Sophie come back to Norday Island in the end?

8. What does Thorfinn take with him when he is liberated from the German war camp?

9. Why does the seal girl, Mara, not follow the seal-people into the sea?

10. What does Thorfinn find when he goes, after many long years, back to the loft where he had locked up Mara's seal skin?

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