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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 boat is being fixed up at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Thorfinn Ragnarson's Selkie.
(b) Matthew Ragnaron's Seascape.
(c) Jacob Olafson's Scallop.
(d) James MacTavish's Rivals.

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

3. What is Thorfinn given in the prison camp to help him write?
(a) Secretary.
(b) German dictionary.
(c) English teacher.
(d) Typewriter.

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

5. What does Matthew Ragnarson's dog Stalwart do when the workmen demolish Ingle's fence?
(a) Tears the fence down for them.
(b) Hides in the barn.
(c) Runs into the sea.
(d) Bites one of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who generally rules the manse and the pastor on Norday Island?

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

3. What awkward announcement does Matthew Ragnarson make to his children in chapter 6?

4. What is the Kitty Fea?

5. Who is Thomas Vass?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thomas Vass think about the arrival of work crews and machinery on Norday Island during the war?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

10. Why did the hippies finally leave Norday Island?

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