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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 did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?
(a) Six bottles of rum.
(b) Lumber for repairing the boat.
(c) A box of nails.
(d) An anchor and rope.

2. What are a ship's trials?
(a) The first tentative voyage.
(b) The anchor.
(c) The problems that arrise during the sail.
(d) The moorings.

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

4. How long was the passage across Newfoundland?
(a) Five hundred and fifty miles.
(b) Two thousand miles.
(c) Three thousand miles.
(d) Nine hundred and fifty miles.

5. Who was the Man Who Gets Things Done?
(a) Farley Mowat.
(b) Paddy Hallohan.
(c) Mark Horwood.
(d) Jack McClelland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?

2. What was unusual about the bunks Enos built in the boat?

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

4. Why did Jack McClelland not arrive in St. John's by plane as he had planned?

5. What kind of fish did Morry and Mowat fish for early one morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. How much money did Mowat have to spend on a boat? What did he finally find in his price range, and where did he and Harold go to purchase the boat?

10. Where did the men go to find the tools and supplies they could not readily find in St John's? How did Mowat travel to this alternate shopping area?

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