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

2. What kinds of things did Passion Flower carry back to Muddy Hole from St. Shotts?
(a) Portlights, bronze, and brass fittings.
(b) Food, fittings, and a case of rum.
(c) Nails, hammers, lumber, and saws.
(d) Rope, an anchor, and food.

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

4. What are fish flakes?
(a) Fish that has been cured.
(b) Racks for drying fish.
(c) Scales from fish that fall to the ground.
(d) Fish food.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the original name given to Ferryland?

3. What did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?

4. Who was the Man Who Gets Things Done?

5. What were the sails on Mowat's ship made of?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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