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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 the William Carson?
(a) The ship that was anchored next to Mowat's new boat.
(b) The ferry that went to Newfoundland from Cape Breton.
(c) The ship that sailed from Cape Breton to London.
(d) The ferry that sailed across the St Lawrence Seaway.

2. What did Enos lose when he went into the woods to hunt caribou?
(a) He shot his foot.
(b) He lost his glasses.
(c) He slept at home.
(d) He got lost.

3. How many daughters did Enos Coffin have?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Six.

4. What did Jack and Mowat decide to do with the bottles of open rum?
(a) Use it for cooking.
(b) Drink it themselves.
(c) Share it with other work sites.
(d) Give it out to the men.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What came special delivery to Mowat and Jack as they worked on their broken boat engine?

2. How long was the passage across Newfoundland?

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

4. What kinds of things did Passion Flower carry back to Muddy Hole from St. Shotts?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Wilbur, and how did Mowat meet him? What did he learn about Wilbur when the two finally arrived in St. John's?

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

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

5. What did McClelland do to reorganize the repair plan for the boat? What was the first thing he decided to change?

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

7. Who was Howard Morry? How did Mowat meet 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 was the ritual Mowat performed called the Old Man in the Sea? Where did he learn this?

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

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