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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 a simile.
(d) This is metonymy.

3. What can be 'injurious as well as beneficial'?
(a) Cod-fishing on the Grand Banks.
(b) The mysterious power of knots.
(c) Falling in love with a mysterious person.
(d) Researching and writing news stories.

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

5. What does Billy like about Desperate Cove?
(a) His girlfriend runs a hotel there.
(b) It has picturesque houses.
(c) It has a good restaurant.
(d) Real estate is good value there.

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

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

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

9. In what city did Quoyle and Partridge meet?
(a) Boston.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Toronto.
(d) New York.

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

11. Why is Dawn keen to use the electric typewriter?
(a) She is keen to practice in order to get a better job.
(b) She secretly types job applications.
(c) She secretly types love letters.
(d) She is secretly writing a novel.

12. The shag is an alternative word for which bird?
(a) The puffin.
(b) The Mother Carey's chicken.
(c) The albatross.
(d) The cormorant.

13. Which people are described as wild, inbred half-wits and murderers?
(a) The Buggits.
(b) The Quoyles.
(c) The Hamms.
(d) The Cards.

14. What is the man in the dory doing?
(a) Diving for abolone.
(b) Inspecting lobster pots.
(c) Inspecting whelk pots.
(d) Fishing.

15. Which of Quoyle's jobs are listed on the first page of the novel?
(a) Distributer of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, third-rate journalist.
(b) Rope-maker and knot-tester, cab driver, third-rate journalist.
(c) Greeting card writer, bell-hop at a hotel, all-night clerk at a convenience store.
(d) Bell-hop at a hotel, third-rate journalist, traveling salesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is part of the managing editor's job?

2. Who is responsible for the Home News Page?

3. For how many years was Quoyle married to Petal?

4. What other strange occurrence is mentioned?

5. Who introduces Quoyle and Wavey?

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