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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Quoyle get to do the special column on The Shipping News?
(a) He is at last able to write good copy.
(b) He does it for a dare.
(c) No-one else is willing to do it.
(d) People loved his story on the Tough Baby.

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

3. Why does Billy go to the clinic?
(a) To do a course in first aid.
(b) To flirt with the nurses.
(c) To visit Carl.
(d) To have his prostate checked.

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

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

6. Why is Gaze Island important to Billy?
(a) His wife and child are buried there.
(b) He owns land there.
(c) He spent his honeymoon there.
(d) His father is buried there.

7. 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) Leaving to pick up Bunny.
(d) Daydreaming about his love for Petal.

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

9. At the motel, what does Quoyle buy for his daughters?
(a) Yo-yos.
(b) Stuffed penguins.
(c) Wind-up penguins.
(d) Cuddly bears.

10. Which animal are Newfoundlanders fond of?
(a) The dog.
(b) The cat.
(c) The wolf.
(d) The moose.

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

12. What visual effect does fog have, according to Billy?
(a) It makes things look larger.
(b) It makes everything look yellow.
(c) It makes things look smaller.
(d) It makes evrything look florid.

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

14. From what does Dawn want to escape?
(a) Mavis Bangs' constant chatter.
(b) Her poverty.
(c) Agnis Hamm's bossiness.
(d) Killick-Claw in the winter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Dawn keen to use the electric typewriter?

2. How old is Jack Buggit?

3. What does Billy like about Desperate Cove?

4. What novel provides the inspiration for Borogrove, Nutbeem's boat?

5. What is the distinctive feature of the Quoyle house?

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