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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 thorugh every pore of the boat.
(b) It came in up through the bottom of the boat.
(c) It came in through the bow of the boat.
(d) It came in through the hole on the sdie of the boat.

2. Who did Wilbur say he was when Mowat first met him?
(a) An old seaman.
(b) The local drunk.
(c) A car repairman.
(d) A short order cook.

3. What was the Southern Shore bummer?
(a) The ship McClelland owned.
(b) The name of the bar on the southern shore.
(c) The story about a ship wreck horwood told.
(d) The kind of ship Horwood found for Mowat.

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

5. Who did Mowat credit as being a master improviser?
(a) Enos Coffin.
(b) Jack McClelland.
(c) Himself.
(d) Howard Morry.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jack McClelland?

2. What did Enos lose when he went into the woods to hunt caribou?

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

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

5. How long was the passage across Newfoundland?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. How did McClelland finally arrive at Muddy Hole? What happened when he arrived that surprised him?

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

8. How did Mowat finally purchase the boat? Who sold him the boat and under what circumstances?

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

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

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