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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 piece of technology does Matthew Ragnarson bring home in chapter 6?
(a) Television.
(b) Xerox machine.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Wireless set.

2. What are the two big houses on Norday Island?
(a) Broch and Smylder.
(b) King George's summer home and Isa's farmhouse.
(c) Town hall and village inn.
(d) Minister's manse and laird's hall.

3. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?
(a) Full of pomp and circumstance.
(b) Living out his years as a crofter on Norday Island.
(c) A glorious death on the fields of battle.
(d) Becoming a great writer of romance novels.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the greatest English sage of the 18th century say, according to chapter 6?

2. What three chocolate bars are mentioned in chapter 6's description of the festival celebration?

3. What dates are carved on Jacob Olafson's stone?

4. What type of music do the workmen play?

5. What is the grand plan of the government for Norday island's new purpose?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. What is happening to both the laird's house and the minister's manse in chapter 5?

5. Who was Revd Hector Drummond and what was he like?

6. According to chapter 5, how did the lairds of old manage to be so wealthy?

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

8. What did Winnie Swona do when some of her hens disappeared from the henhouse during the aerodrome building?

9. In chapter 6, what is Elphinstone's role in rounding up the young men for military service?

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

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