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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Jack Buggit?
(a) Seventy-seven.
(b) Sixty-nine.
(c) Seventy-three.
(d) Fifty-seven.

2. How is Quoyle's routine described?
(a) As simple.
(b) As distinctive.
(c) As elaborate.
(d) As frenetic.

3. Whose ancestor resorted to cannibalism?
(a) Jack Buggit's.
(b) Nutbeam's.
(c) Billy Pretty's.
(d) Warren's.

4. Why is Home Rock important?
(a) It is the site of a shipwreck.
(b) It is home to a protected seal colony.
(c) It marks the landfall of Viking explorers.
(d) It is a navigation point for Killick-Claw.

5. What is described as a 'gelatinous horror'?
(a) A squidburger.
(b) The dessert at the restaurant at Desperate Cove.
(c) Bayonet Melville's head.
(d) A mess of decomposing cod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Mavis' hair?

2. From what does Dawn want to escape?

3. Which of Quoyle's jobs are listed on the first page of the novel?

4. About what does Quoyle not believe a word?

5. Which people are described as wild, inbred half-wits and murderers?

(see the answer key)

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