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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Skipper Will invented?
(a) A new recipe for cod chowder.
(b) A new style of snow-shoe.
(c) A squidburger.
(d) A device for harnessing moose.

2. About what does Quoyle not believe a word?
(a) His aunt's stories about the green house.
(b) Bunny's reported prowess as a sailor.
(c) The gossip concening the interesting boat.
(d) The gossip concening Wavey.

3. Why does Sunshine exclaim that it is 'a ladder house'?
(a) She sees the scaffolding all over it.
(b) The external fire escape looks like a ladder.
(c) In the poor light, the widow panes look like ladders.
(d) There is a ladder to the attic.

4. For how many years was Quoyle married to Petal?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Seven and a half.

5. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.
(a) This is personification.
(b) This is a metaphor.
(c) This is metonymy.
(d) This is a simile.

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

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

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

9. What has Bunny yet to learn?
(a) To disguise the ways in which she is different.
(b) To tie her shoelaces.
(c) To show how talented she is.
(d) To show respect for older people.

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

11. What is Quoyle doing when Mr Shovel calls him?
(a) Rewriting a story Nutbeem had heard on the radio.
(b) Writing a ackground story on a car wreck near Killick-Claw.
(c) Daydreaming about his love for Petal.
(d) Leaving to pick up Bunny.

12. How does Quoyle get the list of ships?
(a) He visits the harbormaster's office.
(b) He phones the shipping companies.
(c) He asks people at the seafront.
(d) He phones the harbormaster.

13. Where had the Quoyles originally settled?
(a) Montreal.
(b) St John's.
(c) Gaze Island.
(d) Killick-Claw.

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

15. What evidence confirms to Agnis that she had seen a man close by?
(a) A dropped cigarette pack.
(b) A smoldering cigarette butt.
(c) Footprints of fishing boots.
(d) The smell of pomade and pipe tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Quoyle and Partridge meet?

2. What unusual sight do Quoyle and Wavey see as they return with the lunch basket?

3. What is a clove hitch?

4. How does Agnis describe berrying?

5. After whom did the aunt name her dog?

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