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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?
(a) A tractor and other farm equipment.
(b) Bees and bee keeping equipment.
(c) Antique furniture for their home.
(d) A Quick Bake cast iron oven for their kitchen.

2. What was rotting beneath the floorboards of the cabin of the boat?
(a) Food.
(b) Mice.
(c) Rats.
(d) Crabs.

3. What is screech?
(a) A locally made breakfast food.
(b) The kind of bird native to Newfoundland.
(c) The name of the boat Horwood found for Mowat.
(d) A rum based drink found only in Newfoundland.

4. What were the three rules of rum in Newfoundland?
(a) Put out all of the rum, let one person open each bottle, recork when finished.
(b) Open only aged rum and recork after each round, never put out two whole bottles.
(c) Open the bottle as soon as it is put out, do not recork, put out one bottle at a time.
(d) Chill the rum for 12 hours, do not recork after opening, show three bottles at a time.

5. What were the sails on Mowat's ship made of?
(a) Nylon and rope.
(b) Nylon and plastic cable.
(c) 8 gauge canvas.
(d) 14 gauge canvas.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Mowat and Mike meet the Manuel brothers?

3. What had the Windsor family operated for generations?

4. Who was the first person to speak to Mowat and Jack at Burin Inlet?

5. What are fish flakes?

(see the answer key)

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