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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color was the boat Mowat purchased from the Hallohans?
(a) Blue and white.
(b) A deep black.
(c) White.
(d) A vile color green.

2. Who did Mowat find cooking breakfast for him the morning after his first day's driving?
(a) An off duty police officer.
(b) A local pig farmer.
(c) A total stranger.
(d) A college roommate.

3. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?
(a) It came in through the hole on the sdie of the boat.
(b) It came in up through the bottom of the boat.
(c) It came in through the bow of the boat.
(d) It came thorugh every pore of the boat.

4. What was the Passion Flower?
(a) Mowat's fifteen year old pickup truck.
(b) McClelland's boat.
(c) Horwood's ten year old pickup truck.
(d) Mowat's ten year old jeep wagon.

5. Where did Wilbur ask Mowat to drop him off in St. John's?
(a) St. John's Mental Hospital.
(b) A small bar in St. John's.
(c) The main wharf in St. John's.
(d) His house in St. John's.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days did it take Mowat to arrive in St. John's?

2. Who was the Man Who Gets Things Done?

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

4. What are fish flakes?

5. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?

(see the answer key)

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