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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. What color was the boat Mowat purchased from the Hallohans?
(a) A vile color green.
(b) A deep black.
(c) White.
(d) Blue and white.

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

3. What did Mowat say was missing from the peaceful harbor scene in Muddy Hole?
(a) Enos's boathouse.
(b) One of the piers.
(c) His repaired ship.
(d) The neighborhood bar.

4. Who was the Old Man of the Sea?
(a) The mythical sailor who liked a glass of rum.
(b) A book by Ernest Hemmingway.
(c) A poem by Tennyson.
(d) The name of the boat sailing next to Happy Adventure.

5. What was considered one of the toughest woods in the world?
(a) Newfoundland fir pine.
(b) Newfoundland black spruce.
(c) Newfoundland birch.
(d) Newfoundland yellow oak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Wilbur say he was when Mowat first met him?

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

3. Who did Mowat find cooking breakfast for him the morning after his first day's driving?

4. What kind of plant pumped its waste into the water at the slip in which Mowat's boat rested?

5. What was Cape Pine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Enos? What agreement had he made with Mowat before the two men parted and Mowat returned to Toronto to get the Passion Flower?

4. Why did Mowat travel to St Johns? Who was Harold Hardwood?

5. Who was Howard Morry? How did Mowat meet him?

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

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

8. Who was Mike Donovan? Why did Mowat contact him?

9. Why did the crew working on the boat agree to McClelland's plan to streamline purchasing? What did McClelland learn about St. John's?

10. What else besides the necessary tools and supplies did McClelland bring back from the Southern Shore? How did he plan to use this purchase? What actually happened?

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