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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 gasoline stove.
(b) With a grill.
(c) With a bonfire.
(d) With an hibachi.

2. What did Mowat refer to as the most salient quality of Newfoundlanders?
(a) Realism.
(b) Optimism.
(c) Delusion.
(d) Pessimism.

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

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

5. What was Cape Pine?
(a) A town just north of Muddy Hole.
(b) A bay filled with pine trees.
(c) A bleak rock jutting out into the water.
(d) A lodge on the northern shore.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Jennie Barnes?

2. What ship did Jack and Mowat name their boat after?

3. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?

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

5. Why was Jack unable to get a clerk to wait on him in the stores in St. John's?

(see the answer key)

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