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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the Black Joke?
2. What was the major crop on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland?
3. What did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?
4. Who is Jack McClelland?
5. What kind of car did Jack rent in St John's to drive to Muddy Hole?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the author have a fear of auctions? How did he find himself at an auction as the story opened?
2. 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?
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 Mowat realize when he arrived in Muddy Hole to take over his boat? Why was Mowat upset and worried?
6. What was the ritual Mowat performed called the Old Man in the Sea? Where did he learn this?
7. How did McClelland finally arrive at Muddy Hole? What happened when he arrived that surprised him?
8. What did Mowat and McClelland name their boat? Why did they choose this name?
9. What happened to the Happy Adventure on its first voyage? What was unusual about the boat's departure form the harbor?
10. Who was Wilbur, and how did Mowat meet him? What did he learn about Wilbur when the two finally arrived in St. John's?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The Happy Adventure had a name change half way into the story. What was her new name? What did Mowat and Donovan say the name sounded like when they pronounced it? What did they call the boat instead? How was this an example of Mowat's temperament throughout most of his experience with his very temperamental boat?
Essay Topic 2
This story is a memoir of Mowat's adventures aboard his boat, the Happy Adventure. In what ways does a memoir differ from an autobiography? Why is The Boat Who Wouldn't Float a memoir rather than an autobiography? What changes would the author need to make in his book for it to be an autobiography?
Essay Topic 3
In the first few chapters of The Boat Who Wouldn't Float, how did the author set the stage for the story that was to follow? What hints did he give the reader about himself and his adventure in Newfoundland with his boat? Why is this devise successful in this book?
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