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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the people of Newfoundland refer to as "the game"?
(a) Keeping drugs out of the country.
(b) Permitting off-season hunting.
(c) The movement for game fishing.
(d) The war against smuggling.

2. How did holy water fly around the cabin of the Happy Adventure during the baptism?
(a) The priest spilled it while opening the flask.
(b) The priest sneezed.
(c) The priest tripped.
(d) The priest fell down.

3. What did Mowat encounter while he was under water repairing the propeller?
(a) A shark.
(b) A seal.
(c) A daulphin.
(d) A puffin.

4. What was Izaro?
(a) The national drink of the Basque nation.
(b) The good luck charm affixed to the boat.
(c) The name of the town nect to the harbor.
(d) The nickname of Mowat's ship.

5. What were Mowat and Mike forced to do when confronted with the BC.M.P.?
(a) Load their cargo onto the pier.
(b) Dump their cargo overboard.
(c) Take theri cargo to another harbor.
(d) Hand their cargo over to the officers.

6. What did Mike and Mowat learn was really the cargo aboard their boat?
(a) Crates filled with cement.
(b) Crates filled with rocks.
(c) Crates filled with sand.
(d) Crates filled with alcohol.

7. What island did Mowat and Jack choose as their new destination?
(a) The island of Wahini.
(b) The island of Key West.
(c) The island of Maui.
(d) The island of St. Pierre.

8. What broke on the Happy Adventure as she continued to sail out into the ocean?
(a) The engine refused to restart.
(b) The exhaust stack separated from the engine.
(c) The mast broke off of the ship.
(d) The engine flooded and gave out.

9. How did Mowat unload the passengers he had taken for a test run of the Itchy?
(a) He sailed to Nova Scotia and left them there.
(b) He put them on a dory outside of Colombier.
(c) He dropped them off on the other side of the island.
(d) He dropped them off in Colombier.

10. Who was Martin Dutin, and what was his job during the repainting of the Happy Adventure?
(a) He was the fisherman who came from Grand Bruit.
(b) He was Theo's son-in-law and the Chef de Protocol.
(c) He was the craftsman who rebuild the ship before painting.
(d) He was the ship's painter and the cook.

11. Where did the crew decide to sail the boat after her christening?
(a) To Moscovia.
(b) To Miquelon.
(c) To Milan.
(d) To Marinetta.

12. What cargo did Itchy take aboard in Miquelon?
(a) Water, food, and medicine.
(b) Rum, wine, and brandy.
(c) Fresh fish, brandy, and gold.
(d) Rum, food, and bedding.

13. What important thing did Mowat do to Itchy over the winter?
(a) Changed her name.
(b) Put in electricity.
(c) Painted her green.
(d) Added new cabins below deck.

14. What was the new name given to the Happy Adventure?
(a) Itchizooma, Alai.
(b) Itchiandscratchi Alai.
(c) Itchatchozale Alai.
(d) Itchegoomi Alai.

15. Why did Jack McClelland decide not to join Mowat for another season of sailing?
(a) His family and friends forbade it.
(b) He had taken ill over the winter.
(c) He was moving to Seattle.
(d) He was no longer interested in sailing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were some of the new colors painted on to the Happy Adventure?

2. What do the people living near Bay d'Espoir call the bay?

3. Why did the Happy Adventure become a Basque ship while moored at St. Pierre?

4. What did it mean to "slap a blanket on the schooner?"

5. What promise did John Smallwood make to his people when he took office?

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