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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Mother Waters and Brother Whales" and "Island Currents".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Mother Waters and Brother Whales," what does Leif hear that seeps into his unconsciousness?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Waves on the canoe.
(c) Wind in the pines.
(d) Birds.

2. In "The Saga of Sea Child," because of what the child was born clutching, what type of life was expected for the child?
(a) Long life.
(b) Calamity and peril.
(c) Good fortune.
(d) Hardship and danger.

3. How many times do Leif and Little Carl stop on the first day after they leave the fish camp?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. Where did Leif get the knife that he wears on his belt in "Island Currents"?
(a) It belonged to his father.
(b) One of the men at the fish camp.
(c) Old Carl.
(d) A sailor on his old ship.

5. In "Mother Waters and Brother Whales," how does the canoe move across the water when creatures are pushing it?
(a) Like pollen.
(b) Like a leaf.
(c) Like a feather.
(d) Life a flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thought that Leif has at the beginning of "Mother Waters and Brother Whales"?

2. In "Men Who Have Lost Their Shadows," how many men come from a death ship?

3. In "The Saga of Sea Child," how did the child's father die?

4. In "Island Current," what shape is the island that Leif drifts too?

5. What had little Carl been sold for?

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