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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 did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?
(a) A box of nails.
(b) Six bottles of rum.
(c) Lumber for repairing the boat.
(d) An anchor and rope.

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

3. What was the original name for Mowat and Jack's boat?
(a) The Ever Ready.
(b) The Hallohans never gave the boat a name.
(c) The name was lost in the records of the ship.
(d) The Nancy Ann.

4. What are a ship's trials?
(a) The problems that arrise during the sail.
(b) The anchor.
(c) The first tentative voyage.
(d) The moorings.

5. What happened to Morry's transcription of his memories of Ferryland?
(a) He destroyed it after writing it.
(b) Children used it to start a bonfire.
(c) Someone stole the book from the boat.
(d) Morry lost the book when he moved.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Wilbur say he was when Mowat first met him?

2. How far did Mowat get the first day of his journey back to Muddy Hole?

3. Where did the men begin having troubles with the Happy Adventure?

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

5. How long did the men work on the Happy Adventure in Trepassey?

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