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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. Why was Jack unable to get a clerk to wait on him in the stores in St. John's?
2. How many days did it take Mowat to arrive in St. John's?
3. What was the Passion Flower?
4. What color was the boat Mowat purchased from the Hallohans?
5. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?
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. What did Mowat and McClelland name their boat? Why did they choose this name?
3. 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?
4. Who was Enos? What agreement had he made with Mowat before the two men parted and Mowat returned to Toronto to get the Passion Flower?
5. How did McClelland finally arrive at Muddy Hole? What happened when he arrived that surprised him?
6. What did Mowat realize when he arrived in Muddy Hole to take over his boat? Why was Mowat upset and worried?
7. Whom did Mowat and McClelland select to be the captain of their boat? Why did they chose this individual?
8. What was the ritual Mowat performed called the Old Man in the Sea? Where did he learn this?
9. 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?
10. After Mowat and McClelland's boat was repaired, what did Enos do? Why did everyone think this unusual?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Mowat use both sarcasm and understatement as a form of humor? Give examples. What other kinds of humor did Mowat use in the telling of his story?
Essay Topic 2
In the final part of the book, Mowat decided to have the Happy Adventure torn apart for scrap. What happened to change his mind? What did he finally decide to do with the boat? Did you think this was a reasonable ending for the story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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