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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 days did it take Mowat to arrive in St. John's?
2. How far did Mowat get the first day of his journey back to Muddy Hole?
3. When was the engine aboard Mowat's boat built?
4. What kind of fish did Morry and Mowat fish for early one morning?
5. Where did Wilbur ask Mowat to drop him off in St. John's?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Whom did Mowat and McClelland select to be the captain of their boat? Why did they chose this individual?
5. Who was Mike Donovan? Why did Mowat contact him?
6. What was the Passion Flower? How did it get its name? Why was it important to Mowat?
7. What happened to the Happy Adventure on its first voyage? What was unusual about the boat's departure form the harbor?
8. How did McClelland finally arrive at Muddy Hole? What happened when he arrived that surprised him?
9. After Mowat and McClelland's boat was repaired, what did Enos do? Why did everyone think this unusual?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Why is the book titled "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float?" What did Mowat mean by this title? Discuss the different meanings the title has to the story.
Essay Topic 3
Fog played a major role in the story Farley Mowat told about his adventures on the Happy Adventure. What two important kinds of fog were there in the story, and what role did each type play in the story?
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