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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pleasure does Wavey enjoy in St John's?
(a) Spending up big with Quoyle's money.
(b) Shopping for little girls.
(c) Spending up big in rich stores.
(d) Eating lunch at an expensive restaurant.

2. What does the aunt do with her brother's ashes?
(a) Disposes them down the lavatory bowl.
(b) Puts them in a special urn and places this on the mantelpiece.
(c) Scatters them in the woods.
(d) Scatters them from the wharf.

3. What are the Tea Buns?
(a) A local word for migrating gannets.
(b) Aunt Agnis's rock cakes.
(c) A special cake served in England.
(d) Submerged rocks.

4. Why does Petal telephone Quoyle from Montgomery?
(a) To ask him to join her there.
(b) To ask him how to cure a hangover.
(c) To tell him she is divorcing him.
(d) To ask him how to make an Alabama Slammer.

5. Why does Bunny need to bring a box of tissues to school?
(a) For making papier-mache.
(b) She's been told that the school cannot afford to supply tissues.
(c) She's been told these are needed for Art classes.
(d) For stuffling pincushions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is special about Wavey's Christmas gift to Quoyle?

2. What do Quoyle and Bunny think about going back to New York?

3. How does the reader know Aunt Agnis doesn't like vinyl cladding?

4. What prompts Quoyle to make another vow to lose weight?

5. What kind of fishing does Jack most prefer?

(see the answer key)

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