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

2. What kind of plant pumped its waste into the water at the slip in which Mowat's boat rested?
(a) A fish plant.
(b) A rubber plant.
(c) A cereal factory.
(d) A shoe factory.

3. What did Jack drive his car into upon arriving at Muddy Hole?
(a) A horse barn.
(b) A lake.
(c) A sheep shed.
(d) A house.

4. What had the Windsor family operated for generations?
(a) A bar and restaurant.
(b) A fish cannery.
(c) A motel and inn.
(d) A whaling factory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Cape Pine?

2. Who was Mike Donovan?

3. How did Mowat find a boat maker in Muddy Hole?

4. Who is Jack McClelland?

5. How did the Happy Adventure leave harbor on her first voyage?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Muddy Hole a huge adjustment for McClelland?

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

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

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

5. Where was Trespassey? What other name is Trespassey known by and why?

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

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

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

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

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

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