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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the Passion Flower?
(a) Horwood's ten year old pickup truck.
(b) Mowat's fifteen year old pickup truck.
(c) McClelland's boat.
(d) Mowat's ten year old jeep wagon.

4. What overtook the men and their ship before reaching Trepassey Harbor?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Drunkenness.
(c) The fog.
(d) A rain storm.

5. How did Jack, Mowat, and their friends christen the Happy Adventure?
(a) They hit the bow with a bottle of rum.
(b) They took her out in the bay and drank a toast.
(c) They sat in her cabin and toasted their new boat.
(d) They went into town and bought drinks for everyone in the bar.

6. What did Mowat say was "by guess and by God?"
(a) The weather on their first sail.
(b) The boat's leaking bow.
(c) The boat's compassless navigation.
(d) The boat's wooden structure.

7. How did Mowat cook while living on the boat?
(a) With a gasoline stove.
(b) With a grill.
(c) With an hibachi.
(d) With a bonfire.

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

9. What was the William Carson?
(a) The ship that sailed from Cape Breton to London.
(b) The ferry that went to Newfoundland from Cape Breton.
(c) The ship that was anchored next to Mowat's new boat.
(d) The ferry that sailed across the St Lawrence Seaway.

10. What was called the Country of the Masterless Men?
(a) The center of the country.
(b) The northern mountains.
(c) The southern mointains.
(d) The interior of the peninsula.

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

12. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?
(a) It came in through the hole on the sdie of the boat.
(b) It came thorugh every pore of the boat.
(c) It came in through the bow of the boat.
(d) It came in up through the bottom of the boat.

13. Who was Peter Easton?
(a) A captain in the Royal Navy who rose to the rank of General in WWII.
(b) A captain in the Royal Navy who led the fleet into battle in the Pacific.
(c) A captain in the Royal Navy who fought the Britisih in the War of 1812.
(d) A captiain in the Royal Navy who became one of the most famous pirates of all time.

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

15. What kinds of things did Passion Flower carry back to Muddy Hole from St. Shotts?
(a) Rope, an anchor, and food.
(b) Nails, hammers, lumber, and saws.
(c) Food, fittings, and a case of rum.
(d) Portlights, bronze, and brass fittings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had the Windsor family operated for generations?

2. What colors were painted on Enos's house?

3. What did Jack drive his car into upon arriving at Muddy Hole?

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

5. What was the original name for Mowat and Jack's boat?

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