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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. How many daughters did Enos Coffin have?
2. What are a ship's trials?
3. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?
4. How long did the boat maker think it would take to repair Mowat's boat?
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. 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. 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. 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?
5. 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?
6. Why did the crew working on the boat agree to McClelland's plan to streamline purchasing? What did McClelland learn about St. John's?
7. What did Mowat realize when he arrived in Muddy Hole to take over his boat? Why was Mowat upset and worried?
8. Why did Mowat travel to St Johns? Who was Harold Hardwood?
9. Who was Wilbur, and how did Mowat meet him? What did he learn about Wilbur when the two finally arrived in St. John's?
10. Who was Howard Morry? How did Mowat meet him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mowat spoke with great respect about the creativity and ingenuity of the people he met in harbor towns. What are some examples of the kinds of creativity and ingenuity he experienced during his time in Newfoundland? Why did Mowat think of these examples as typical of the people of Newfoundland living along the water?
Essay Topic 2
Howard Morry appeared in Mowat's book as a story teller extraordinaire. Who was Howard Morry? How did Mowat meet him, and what were the important stories Morry told that directly affected life aboard the Happy Adventure?
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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