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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What colors were painted on Enos's house?
(a) Puce, yellow, and red.
(b) Orange, blue, and yellow.
(c) Yellow, green, and white.
(d) Blue, white, and green.

2. How did Jack, Mowat, and their friends christen the Happy Adventure?
(a) They hit the bow with a bottle of rum.
(b) They sat in her cabin and toasted their new boat.
(c) They took her out in the bay and drank a toast.
(d) They went into town and bought drinks for everyone in the bar.

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

4. What did Jack do for most of the Happy Adventure's first voyage?
(a) Poured rum for the two men.
(b) Tried to start the stubborn engine.
(c) Worked the sails.
(d) Pumped water out of the leaking boat.

5. What kind of plant pumped its waste into the water at the slip in which Mowat's boat rested?
(a) A shoe factory.
(b) A fish plant.
(c) A cereal factory.
(d) A rubber plant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the major crop on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland?

2. Who was Peter Easton?

3. What was the Passion Flower?

4. What kind of fish did Morry and Mowat fish for early one morning?

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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