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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jack do at Burin Cove?
(a) Decided to go back to Toronto temporarily.
(b) Decided to buy a new engine.
(c) Decided to abandon the adventure.
(d) Decided to sell the ship and go home to Toronto.

2. How did Mowat find a boat maker in Muddy Hole?
(a) Horwood recommended him.
(b) McClelland knew a boat maker.
(c) The Hallohan brothers recommended him.
(d) Mowat called a friend in Toronto.

3. 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.

4. What was the William Carson?
(a) The ferry that sailed across the St Lawrence Seaway.
(b) The ship that sailed from Cape Breton to London.
(c) The ferry that went to Newfoundland from Cape Breton.
(d) The ship that was anchored next to Mowat's new boat.

5. What did Mowat refer to as the most salient quality of Newfoundlanders?
(a) Realism.
(b) Pessimism.
(c) Delusion.
(d) Optimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dory?

2. What was the Passion Flower?

3. After casting about lost in fog and darkness, what did Mowat and Jack finally hear?

4. What happen to the Happy Adventure's supply of fresh water?

5. Who was Blanche?

(see the answer key)

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