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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 | Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Quoyle get the list of ships?
(a) He phones the shipping companies.
(b) He asks people at the seafront.
(c) He phones the harbormaster.
(d) He visits the harbormaster's office.

2. What damage did The Polar Grinder sustain in the terrible storm?
(a) It was dismasted.
(b) A crack in the steel hull from starboard to port.
(c) The bridge was swept away, the captain with it.
(d) It broke in half.

3. Who is responsible for the Home News Page?
(a) Billy Pretty.
(b) Tom Pretty.
(c) Cyrus Nutbeam.
(d) Partridge.

4. What is Quoyle doing when Mr Shovel calls him?
(a) Leaving to pick up Bunny.
(b) Writing a ackground story on a car wreck near Killick-Claw.
(c) Rewriting a story Nutbeem had heard on the radio.
(d) Daydreaming about his love for Petal.

5. How does the reader know Aunt Agnis doesn't like vinyl cladding?
(a) She abuses the salesman.
(b) She makes a Bronx cheer when it is mentioned.
(c) She says she wouldn't have it on her coffin.
(d) She says she wouldn't cross the road to buy it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it claimed that biologists have visited the Tough Baby?

2. When is the library open?

3. After whom did the aunt name her dog?

4. In what way does Quoyle benefit from Petal's death?

5. How is Agnis Hamm related to Quoyle's father?

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