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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Toby need before the small group can leave the dock in Chapter 7?
(a) A few moments alone with Ruth.
(b) Supplies.
(c) Lunch.
(d) A bathroom break.

2. What does Owney do after working as Stan's sternman for two years?
(a) Buys a fiberglass boat and grows rich.
(b) Works for Ruth.
(c) Travels on the mainland and attracts business to the islands.
(d) Buys and sells shares.

3. Why does Ruth call Stan a liar and a coward in Chapter 12?
(a) Because he lied to her about her real family.
(b) Because he never expresses an opinion about anything.
(c) Because he allows Angus to bully him.
(d) Because he did not save the family pet from drowning.

4. Who is Chucky Strachan?
(a) The bartender at the wedding.
(b) The best man at the wedding.
(c) The father of the bride at the wedding.
(d) The brother of the groom at the wedding.

5. Where do Ruth and Owney walk along the edge of in Chapter 11?
(a) A cliff.
(b) The shore.
(c) A deep quarry.
(d) A farmer's field.

6. Where does Ruth kiss Owney in Chapter 11?
(a) In Owney's bedroom.
(b) Near a sheer wall of granite.
(c) In the garden at the house.
(d) Under a large oak tree.

7. What nickname does Stan earn after the end of the war?
(a) Greedy Number Two.
(b) Boat Dweller.
(c) Stan the Man.
(d) Lobsterman.

8. Who is Rhonda's favorite child?
(a) Orly.
(b) Webster.
(c) Peter.
(d) Jonas.

9. Who gets married in July of 1976?
(a) Paulette Grouix and Bart Williams.
(b) Amelia Farnsworth and Karl Guigenheim.
(c) Natalie Dupont and Larry Hammersmith.
(d) Dotty Wishnell and Charlie Burden.

10. What did Chester do after serving in the army?
(a) He joined the Gypsy Bandoleer Bandits.
(b) He became a prison guard in a state prison.
(c) He opened a french-style restaurant along the bayou.
(d) He married and had three children.

11. Who does Ruth live with in July, August and early September of 1976?
(a) Lanford.
(b) Stan.
(c) Toby.
(d) Rhonda.

12. What does Simon want Ruth to get from Lanford in Chapter 8?
(a) Some food.
(b) His antique pocket watch.
(c) Money.
(d) The tusk.

13. When was the third lobster war?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1949.

14. Why does Kitty live with Rhonda in Chapter 12?
(a) She has been thrown out by Len.
(b) She is trying to save rent money.
(c) Rhonda is ill.
(d) She is on the run.

15. What does Cal argue with Ruth about in Chapter 7?
(a) Whether Ruth is old enough to date.
(b) Whether Cal or Angus is better looking.
(c) Whether he or Ruth's mother is the bigger sycophant.
(d) Whether Ruth should return to the island or not.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do younger lobstermen tend to be?

2. Who is the family idiot in Rhonda's family?

3. What happened to John while he was in the army?

4. What does Owney's uncle not allow him to do as of Chapter 7?

5. When Ruth leaves Toby's room in Chapter 10, what does she wish she had declared to him?

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