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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 did Mike and Mowat learn was really the cargo aboard their boat?
2. What did Jack do at Burin Cove?
3. Who did Mike and Mowat encounter in the fog while drifting in the Atlantic?
4. How did Mowat unload the passengers he had taken for a test run of the Itchy?
5. Where did Mowat and Claire decide to sail after they left the French waters outside of St. Pierre?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did McClelland learn when he called his office from Burin Cove? How did his plans change after the phone call? What promise did he make to Mowat after the call?
2. What direction did the Happy Adventure insist on avoiding as Mowat sailed her for the years following the incident in St Pierre? What happened when he attempted to sail her in that direction? What became his cry as he realized the Happy Adventure had won the battle of directions?
3. When Mowat returned to St.Pierre in the spring, what did he learn about the men in whose charge he had left the Itchy? What condition was the boat in when Mowat found it?
4. Who was Paulo? Where and how did Mowat meet him? What did he do for the Happy Adventure?
5. Why did Mowat finally give up his plan to sail the Atlantic?
6. What was the Happy Adventure's new name after her christening? What did Mowat and Mike decide to call her for short? Why?
7. How did the people on the island celebrate the public christening of the ship?
8. When sailing aboard the Happy Adventure toward their chosen destination, who did Mowat and Jack meet in St Mary's Bay, and what did they learn at that moment?
9. After finding safe harbor for the night, who did Mowat and McClelland meet when they woke in the morning? What did the their unexpected visitor offer the two men?
10. What was the Oregon? How did Theo help save the Oregon?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who was Peter Easton? What was his importance in the story? What did McClelland do after hearing the story and why? There are at least two ironic parts of the story. What were they? Why would they be considered ironic?
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
Other than McClelland, identify three main characters Mowat spent time with in Newfoundland. Describe characteristics of each, and how each were involved in the sailing of the Happy Adventure.
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