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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 38.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the sled dog driver of the Chapter 39 heading?
(a) Bunny.
(b) Quoyle.
(c) Cousin Nolan.
(d) Jack London.

2. How does Tert Card like his champagne?
(a) To be of a vintage year.
(b) To come from France.
(c) With strawberries sliced up in it.
(d) With a ripe peach floating in it.

3. Of which type of figurative language is this an example: 'The bay was an aluminum tray dotted with paper boats.'?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Onomatopoeia
(d) Transfiguration.

4. Who buys sea urchin roe?
(a) The Pacific Islands.
(b) The French.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) The Indonesians.

5. What can be 'injurious as well as beneficial'?
(a) The mysterious power of knots.
(b) Researching and writing news stories.
(c) Cod-fishing on the Grand Banks.
(d) Falling in love with a mysterious person.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Quoyle get the list of ships?

2. What complicates the family's stay at the motel?

3. Under what flag is the ship Rome registered?

4. In what way is a nip important to a knot?

5. What landscape feature triggers the aunt's memories?

(see the answer key)

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