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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Mike Donovan?
(a) The man who originally built the Happy Adventure.
(b) The skilled navigator of a government boat.
(c) The engine repair man Mowat found to fix the boat's engine.
(d) The Director of Provincial Library Services in St John's.

2. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?
(a) Antique furniture for their home.
(b) A tractor and other farm equipment.
(c) Bees and bee keeping equipment.
(d) A Quick Bake cast iron oven for their kitchen.

3. What are fish flakes?
(a) Racks for drying fish.
(b) Scales from fish that fall to the ground.
(c) Fish that has been cured.
(d) Fish food.

4. Where did the Happy Adventure finally stop in Trepassey Harbor?
(a) Just outside of the main dock.
(b) On the steep rocks.
(c) Next to the fish plant.
(d) At the local bar.

5. What did the American capitalist Cyrus Eaton welcome to Pugwash every year?
(a) The Seamen's Conference.
(b) The Thinkers' Conference.
(c) The Fishermen's Meeting.
(d) The Whalers' Weekend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mowat attend an auction as an adult?

2. Who was Peter Easton?

3. What colors were painted on Enos's house?

4. How long was the passage across Newfoundland?

5. Why did Jack McClelland not arrive in St. John's by plane as he had planned?

(see the answer key)

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