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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the three young lady typists bring with them to Norday?

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

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

4. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?

5. After Tina Lyde is chased off by Thorfinn's sister in chapter 6 what does Tina do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the hippies finally leave Norday Island?

3. What does Thorfinn do when he returns to the island after the war?

4. Why was Mistress Ragnarson not afraid to catch consumption from her son Thorfinn (in chapter 6)?

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

6. 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?

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

8. Who is Sophie?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the effect of the Aerodrome project upon the Island of Norday? How does this project change their way of life forever? What do the workers bring? What do they destroy?

Essay Topic 2

Write a detailed character sketch of Mara, the seal wife. What does she give up by marriage to Thorfinn? What is it that she longs for? What is it that she cannot stand, finally, and why does she return to the sea? What does she look like? How does she see the world? What does she want?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on the idea of a muse, in both ancient Greek literature and here, in chapter 5. How does Sophie function as a muse? Find one example of an ancient Greek muse and compare her to that example.

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