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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What injuries did Dennis sustain during the storm crisis on The Polar Grinder?
(a) Both arms were broken.
(b) His right arm and left leg were broken.
(c) He fractured his skull and right arm.
(d) Both legs were broken.

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

3. Who tells Quoyle about the Los Angeles riots?
(a) Tert Card.
(b) Partridge.
(c) Wavey.
(d) Jack Buggit.

4. What unusual sight do Quoyle and Wavey see as they return with the lunch basket?
(a) Green sausageweed and coralweed.
(b) A pod of whales.
(c) A strange ship.
(d) A collapsing iceberg.

5. Why did the party guests sink Nutbeem's boat?
(a) To keep him in Killick-Claw.
(b) To force him to stay and pay his debts.
(c) As revenge for his bad news stories.
(d) As revenge for supplying poor liquor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Agnis' mother die?

2. Of which type of figurative language is this an example: 'The bay was an aluminum tray dotted with paper boats.'?

3. What does the aunt do with her brother's ashes?

4. What are the men arguing about during breakfast?

5. What is the main component for a large dog's leash?

(see the answer key)

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