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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of things did Passion Flower carry back to Muddy Hole from St. Shotts?
(a) Portlights, bronze, and brass fittings.
(b) Food, fittings, and a case of rum.
(c) Rope, an anchor, and food.
(d) Nails, hammers, lumber, and saws.

2. What did the people of Newfoundland refer to as "the game"?
(a) Keeping drugs out of the country.
(b) The movement for game fishing.
(c) Permitting off-season hunting.
(d) The war against smuggling.

3. What was unusual about the bunks Enos built in the boat?
(a) They were comfortable.
(b) They were slanted and soft.
(c) They were hard and short.
(d) They were slanted and splintery.

4. What was the Black Joke?
(a) An infamous slave ship running between Virginia and West Africa.
(b) An infamous pirate ship in the West Indies.
(c) An infamous trading ship running between China and London.
(d) An infamous steamliner running between Lisbon and Dover.

5. What were the three rules of rum in Newfoundland?
(a) Chill the rum for 12 hours, do not recork after opening, show three bottles at a time.
(b) Open the bottle as soon as it is put out, do not recork, put out one bottle at a time.
(c) Put out all of the rum, let one person open each bottle, recork when finished.
(d) Open only aged rum and recork after each round, never put out two whole bottles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why had Claire come to the islands and aboard Mowat's boat?

2. What did the three men Mowat left in charge of the Itchy do rather than tend to the boat?

3. What did Jack and Mowat decide to do with the bottles of open rum?

4. What was the original name for Mowat and Jack's boat?

5. How did Mowat and Mike meet the Manuel brothers?

(see the answer key)

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