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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Back Buddy for?
(a) To give comfort and support to the spinal column.
(b) To supply drinks on long boat trips.
(c) To self-massage an aching back.
(d) To keep a lookout at the back door.

2. What creature does Quoyle see when he is clearing trash?
(a) An albatross.
(b) A Minke whale.
(c) A moose.
(d) A Southern Right whale.

3. What is the alternative name for Gaze Island?
(a) The Isle of Pines.
(b) Christmas Island.
(c) Whale Island.
(d) Moose Island.

4. What is The Gammy Bird?
(a) A species of gannet.
(b) The name of a newspaper.
(c) The name of a motel.
(d) The name of a boat.

5. What is a synonym for 'mortification'?
(a) Death.
(b) Transfiguration.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Locking in with a mortice.

6. What bizarre tale does Nutbeem tell?
(a) Of a bouncer being assaulted with a fish.
(b) Of a ghostly sealer feasting on whale blubber.
(c) Of a fish being sent to a party.
(d) Of a woman being made to eat rotten fish.

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

8. How much did the Melvilles pay Agnis for the boat upholstery?
(a) Nothing. They left during the night without settling their account.
(b) Two thousand dollars and twenty-nine cents.
(c) Half of what was owing, then left during the night.
(d) One thousand dollars.

9. How much money did Wavey's father make on berries in the previous year?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) Twelve hundred dollars.
(c) A thousand dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

10. Who was Quoyle's favorite child?
(a) Dick.
(b) Jane.
(c) Quoyle.
(d) Petal.

11. What other strange occurrence is mentioned?
(a) Frogs raining down in Misky Bay.
(b) A fall of frozen ducks.
(c) The return of the Flying Dutchman.
(d) A ghost ship in the bay.

12. What is the subject of the story Quoyle tells his daughters?
(a) A sad dog.
(b) Seals.
(c) A moose.
(d) Baby penguins.

13. In what way is a nip important to a knot?
(a) The security of the knot depends upon it.
(b) It must not be undone first.
(c) It must be in strict ratio to the tuck.
(d) The finished look of the knot depends on it.

14. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .
(a) Florida
(b) Moose Lake
(c) Connecticut
(d) Killick-Claw

15. The bay's appearance on the map is shown as . . .
(a) A dog's leg.
(b) A blue Chinese vase.
(c) A chemist's pale blue flask.
(d) A bent thumb

Short Answer Questions

1. What can be 'injurious as well as beneficial'?

2. Which character 'sleeps as quiet as an eggbeater'?

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

4. Who introduces Quoyle and Wavey?

5. What was unusual about the Net-Man?

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