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

2. What was unusual about the bunks Enos built in the boat?
(a) They were slanted and splintery.
(b) They were hard and short.
(c) They were comfortable.
(d) They were slanted and soft.

3. Who was Mike Donovan?
(a) The engine repair man Mowat found to fix the boat's engine.
(b) The man who originally built the Happy Adventure.
(c) The Director of Provincial Library Services in St John's.
(d) The skilled navigator of a government boat.

4. What did Jack and Mowat decide to do with the bottles of open rum?
(a) Drink it themselves.
(b) Give it out to the men.
(c) Share it with other work sites.
(d) Use it for cooking.

5. How did the Happy Adventure leave harbor on her first voyage?
(a) With both sails and engine pushing her forward.
(b) Backwards under full sail.
(c) She did not; she crashed into rocks.
(d) Smoothly with sails unfurled.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?

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

3. What happened to Morry's transcription of his memories of Ferryland?

4. What had the Windsor family operated for generations?

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

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