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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 in through the bow of the boat.
(c) It came thorugh every pore of the boat.
(d) It came in up through the bottom of the boat.

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

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

4. Why did Jack McClelland not arrive in St. John's by plane as he had planned?
(a) The fog was too dense.
(b) A hurricane was whipping up.
(c) There were mechanical problems on the plane.
(d) He decided he wanted to come by boat.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Mowat cook while living on the boat?

3. What had the Windsor family operated for generations?

4. What did the American capitalist Cyrus Eaton welcome to Pugwash every year?

5. How much did Mowat pay for the boat he bought outside of Muddy Hole?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the author have a fear of auctions? How did he find himself at an auction as the story opened?

2. After Mowat and McClelland's boat was repaired, what did Enos do? Why did everyone think this unusual?

3. What happened to the Happy Adventure on its first voyage? What was unusual about the boat's departure form the harbor?

4. What did Mowat realize when he arrived in Muddy Hole to take over his boat? Why was Mowat upset and worried?

5. How did Mowat know Jack McClelland? What did the two men decide to do after meeting at a bar one night?

6. Whom did Mowat and McClelland select to be the captain of their boat? Why did they chose this individual?

7. What did Mowat and McClelland name their boat? Why did they choose this name?

8. What did the villagers bring the men to eat while they were living and working aboard the boat? What did Enos finally teach Mowat and McClelland to do with the abundance of food they were given?

9. What was the Passion Flower? How did it get its name? Why was it important to Mowat?

10. What was the ritual Mowat performed called the Old Man in the Sea? Where did he learn this?

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