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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the Happy Adventure finally stop in Trepassey Harbor?
(a) At the local bar.
(b) Next to the fish plant.
(c) Just outside of the main dock.
(d) On the steep rocks.

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

3. What did the American capitalist Cyrus Eaton welcome to Pugwash every year?
(a) The Thinkers' Conference.
(b) The Whalers' Weekend.
(c) The Fishermen's Meeting.
(d) The Seamen's Conference.

4. What ship did Jack and Mowat name their boat after?
(a) The Queen Mary.
(b) Peter Easton's ship.
(c) The Halloran brother's ship.
(d) A toy ship Jack once had as a child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the sails on Mowat's ship made of?

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

3. What did Jack and Mowat decide to do with the bottles of open rum?

4. What did Mowat say was "by guess and by God?"

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

(see the answer key)

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