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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is one thing Quoyle actually likes about Christmas?
(a) Opening presents.
(b) Remembering his childhood Christmases.
(c) The smell of fir trees.
(d) The ads on the radio.

3. When is the library open?
(a) Friday and Saturday afternoons.
(b) Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
(c) Friday and Tuesday afternoons.
(d) Saturdays.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem did the newsprint carrier have?

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

3. What evidence confirms to Agnis that she had seen a man close by?

4. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?

5. What keeps Adonis Collard in Misky Bay?

(see the answer key)

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