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

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

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

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

5. When does the original Hall burn down?
(a) 1880.
(b) 1314.
(c) 1930.
(d) 1746.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is this "crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste" that George Mackay Brown speaks of in chapter 6?

2. What do the workmen set up in the Gleb hayfield?

3. Why is the present laird so poor?

4. Whose house does Thorfinn come back to in chapter 8?

5. Where does the Norday laird of the 1930s spend most of his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the hippies finally leave Norday Island?

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

3. Why did the Westvoe farm catch on fire and burn to the ground?

4. What did the Ragnarson's dog, Stalwart, do when the workers came to tear down the fences in order that Ingle might become part of the Aerodrome building site?

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

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

7. When the workmen are sent to build the aerodrome on Norday Island they are quite unhappy. What cheers them up?

8. How is the story Mr. Simon is telling the class (early in chapter 5) relevant to the fantasy sequence in which Thorfinn marries a seal wife?

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

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

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