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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Quoyle slows his boat down quickly?
(a) It capsizes.
(b) The engine stalls.
(c) It rolls alarmingly.
(d) Water comes in over the transom at the stern.

2. What is the distinctive feature of the Quoyle house?
(a) An odd roof-line.
(b) The carving on the gables.
(c) A window flanked by two smaller ones.
(d) It's painted bright green.

3. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?
(a) Primitive and ignorant.
(b) Musical.
(c) Being unable to speak.
(d) Reversion to an earlier type.

4. What is The Gammy Bird?
(a) The name of a newspaper.
(b) The name of a motel.
(c) A species of gannet.
(d) The name of a boat.

5. What has Bunny yet to learn?
(a) To tie her shoelaces.
(b) To show respect for older people.
(c) To disguise the ways in which she is different.
(d) To show how talented she is.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Quoyle get to do the special column on The Shipping News?

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

4. What condition does Wavey's son suffer from?

5. Where is the Melvilles' home?

(see the answer key)

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