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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 was considered one of the toughest woods in the world?
(a) Newfoundland black spruce.
(b) Newfoundland yellow oak.
(c) Newfoundland fir pine.
(d) Newfoundland birch.

2. How did Mowat cook while living on the boat?
(a) With a bonfire.
(b) With a grill.
(c) With an hibachi.
(d) With a gasoline stove.

3. What was the Southern Shore bummer?
(a) The story about a ship wreck horwood told.
(b) The name of the bar on the southern shore.
(c) The kind of ship Horwood found for Mowat.
(d) The ship McClelland owned.

4. What happened to Morry's transcription of his memories of Ferryland?
(a) Children used it to start a bonfire.
(b) Morry lost the book when he moved.
(c) He destroyed it after writing it.
(d) Someone stole the book from the boat.

5. What was called the Country of the Masterless Men?
(a) The center of the country.
(b) The northern mountains.
(c) The interior of the peninsula.
(d) The southern mointains.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship did Mowat dream he was sailing?

2. What was the Black Joke?

3. What are a ship's trials?

4. What kind of plant pumped its waste into the water at the slip in which Mowat's boat rested?

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

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