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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?
(a) Being unable to speak.
(b) Primitive and ignorant.
(c) Reversion to an earlier type.
(d) Musical.

2. Which character 'sleeps as quiet as an eggbeater'?
(a) Quoyle.
(b) Bunny.
(c) Warren.
(d) Agnis.

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

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

5. Whose ancestor resorted to cannibalism?
(a) Nutbeam's.
(b) Warren's.
(c) Jack Buggit's.
(d) Billy Pretty's.

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. Why is it claimed that biologists have visited the Tough Baby?
(a) To collect the rare marine specimens collected.
(b) To inspect a new species of squid.
(c) To use the boat as a base for tagging Minke whales.
(d) To view the numerous carvings of animals and birds that decorate it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Jack Buggit?

3. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .

4. Why is Gaze Island important to Billy?

5. What group does Reverend Stain belong to?

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