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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of fish did Morry and Mowat fish for early one morning?
(a) Salmon.
(b) Trout.
(c) Cod.
(d) Sole.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is screech?

2. What did Enos lose when he went into the woods to hunt caribou?

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

4. What did Mowat say was missing from the peaceful harbor scene in Muddy Hole?

5. Who was the Man Who Gets Things Done?

(see the answer key)

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