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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the people living near Bay d'Espoir call the bay?
(a) Bay Crystal.
(b) Bay of Tears.
(c) Bay of Hope.
(d) Bay Despair.
2. Who presided over the formal baptism of the newly repaired and painted Happy Adventure?
(a) A town judge.
(b) A Dominican Father.
(c) A local minister.
(d) A Catholic Bishop.
3. What did Mowat say was the advantage of Mike being ignorant of the schooner and her history?
(a) It would be easy for him to repair the boat.
(b) He would get the boat to Montreal.
(c) He would not get in Mowat's way.
(d) He did not know to be nervous.
4. What ship did Mowat dream he was sailing?
(a) The Queen Mary II.
(b) The Queen Elizabeth.
(c) The Queen Mary.
(d) The Queen Anne.
5. Who stayed with the Itchy while Claire and Mowat took their excursion with Theo?
(a) Harold.
(b) Wilbur.
(c) Enos.
(d) Mike.
6. What was Theo's boat named after?
(a) The WWII ship the Oregon.
(b) Oregon, Michigan.
(c) The WWI plane the Oregon.
(d) The state of Oregon.
7. What kinds of things did Mowat have done to the Happy Adventure while they were in Spoon Cove?
(a) Fresh paint and new anchors.
(b) A total cleaning and a new bullgine.
(c) A total cleaning both exterior and interior and fresh paint.
(d) Fresh paint and fresh rations.
8. What symbiotic relationship did Mowat and Clarie witness while on their excursion on the Columbier?
(a) That between the rats and the residents.
(b) That between the puffins and the rats.
(c) That between the puffins and the residents.
(d) That between the dogs and the puffins.
9. In what vehicle did Mike Donovan arrive in Spoon Cove?
(a) A jeep.
(b) A Volkswagen.
(c) A Buick convertible.
(d) A Cadillac.
10. Why had Claire come to the islands and aboard Mowat's boat?
(a) To study Italian.
(b) To study shipbuilding.
(c) To study her French.
(d) To study navigation.
11. What were Mowat and Mike forced to do when confronted with the BC.M.P.?
(a) Take theri cargo to another harbor.
(b) Dump their cargo overboard.
(c) Load their cargo onto the pier.
(d) Hand their cargo over to the officers.
12. What did Mike and Mowat find as they were out in open waters heading to Lemaline Head?
(a) Another schooner just like Mowat's.
(b) A school of dolphins.
(c) An immense shark.
(d) Three sharks circling the boat.
13. How does a helmsman push the tiller to steer the boat?
(a) To the left to turn left.
(b) In the opposite direction he wants to go.
(c) In the same direction he wants to go.
(d) To the right to turn right.
14. What did Jack do at Burin Cove?
(a) Decided to abandon the adventure.
(b) Decided to sell the ship and go home to Toronto.
(c) Decided to buy a new engine.
(d) Decided to go back to Toronto temporarily.
15. Who did Mike and Mowat encounter in the fog while drifting in the Atlantic?
(a) The ship Blue Iris.
(b) The ship Black Night.
(c) The ship Crimson Tide.
(d) The ship Brown Bear.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did the crew decide to sail the boat after her christening?
2. Where did Mowat and Claire leave Itchy for the winter?
3. What did Mike and Mowat learn was really the cargo aboard their boat?
4. What was rotting beneath the floorboards of the cabin of the boat?
5. After casting about lost in fog and darkness, what did Mowat and Jack finally hear?
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