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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Southern Shore bummer?
(a) The kind of ship Horwood found for Mowat.
(b) The name of the bar on the southern shore.
(c) The ship McClelland owned.
(d) The story about a ship wreck horwood told.

2. What did Enos lose when he went into the woods to hunt caribou?
(a) He slept at home.
(b) He got lost.
(c) He shot his foot.
(d) He lost his glasses.

3. What did Enos always do at times of stress?
(a) Prayed aloud.
(b) Whistled a sailor's tune.
(c) Cursed the sea.
(d) Took out his teeth.

4. How long did the boat maker think it would take to repair Mowat's boat?
(a) Three months.
(b) Five months.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two months.

5. How much did Mowat pay for the boat he bought outside of Muddy Hole?
(a) Less than five hundred dollars.
(b) Less than a thousand dollars.
(c) Less than two hundred dollars.
(d) A thousand dollars.

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

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

8. What last thing did the old skipper do for Mowat and Jack before leaving the Harbor?
(a) Taught them how to repair a sail.
(b) Told them the story of the Harbor.
(c) Taught them how to use a compass.
(d) Told them to leave the Harbor as soon as they could.

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

10. How far did Mowat get the first day of his journey back to Muddy Hole?
(a) 600 miles to Toronto.
(b) 650 miles to outside Quebec City.
(c) 550 miles to the St Lawrence River.
(d) 500 miles to St. John's.

11. When did Mowat finally help Enos work on the boat?
(a) When he returned from St. Lawrence.
(b) When Enos needed an extra pair of hands.
(c) When Enos's helpers did not show up for work.
(d) When he felt he had to finish the job himself.

12. What did Jack drive his car into upon arriving at Muddy Hole?
(a) A lake.
(b) A house.
(c) A horse barn.
(d) A sheep shed.

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

14. When was the engine aboard Mowat's boat built?
(a) In the 1950s.
(b) In the 1940s.
(c) In the 1960s.
(d) In the 1920s.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are a ship's trials?

4. Why did Jack McClelland not arrive in St. John's by plane as he had planned?

5. How did Mowat find a boat maker in Muddy Hole?

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