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

2. What is screech?
(a) A locally made breakfast food.
(b) A rum based drink found only in Newfoundland.
(c) The kind of bird native to Newfoundland.
(d) The name of the boat Horwood found for Mowat.

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

4. How old was Howard Morry?
(a) In his sixties.
(b) In his thirties.
(c) In his fifties.
(d) In his eighties.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mowat say was missing from the peaceful harbor scene in Muddy Hole?

2. What did Enos always do at times of stress?

3. What was Cape Pine?

4. What did Mowat refer to as the most salient quality of Newfoundlanders?

5. What color was the boat Mowat purchased from the Hallohans?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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