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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job change does Jack announce for Quoyle?
(a) He's to be made redundant.
(b) He'll be managing editor and Nutbeem will do The Shipping news.
(c) He's to be managing editor, but will keep writing The Shipping News.
(d) He's to be Women's Editor.

2. What does Quoyle swear will happen?
(a) He will get a pay rise.
(b) There will be no reporting of sex murders.
(c) There will be equal space for news and advertising.
(d) There will never be a typo.

3. Who is Alvin's niece?
(a) Agnis.
(b) Beety.
(c) Petal.
(d) Wavey.

4. What does Wavey wonder about?
(a) When Quoyle will propose to her.
(b) Whether or not she loves Quoyle.
(c) How she'll teach Bunny to hook rugs.
(d) Bunny's mentioning of Petal.

5. How did Quoyle occupy himself until lunch?
(a) He worked on his novel.
(b) He split wood.
(c) He went fishing.
(d) He wrote a news story.

6. What is another word for the former sailor hairstyle called 'queues'?
(a) Pompadours.
(b) Crew cuts.
(c) Pigtails.
(d) Duck-tails.

7. What experience does Tert Card say makes one 'cry with pleasure'?
(a) Arriving in Florida.
(b) Taking off from Misky Bay.
(c) Drinking fresh orange juice.
(d) Getting through the winter.

8. What is approximate to the meaning of the word 'redolent'?
(a) reducing
(b) repetitive
(c) recurring, resounding.
(d) aromatic, reminiscent.

9. What phenomenon heralds bad weather?
(a) A ball of blue fire on the water.
(b) Restless sheep.
(c) A strange roaring in the sky.
(d) An eerie feel to the atmosphere.

10. How did Agnis' mother die?
(a) Of pneumonia, at home.
(b) Of pneumonia, in a Brooklyn hospital.
(c) Of injuries sustained in a fall.
(d) Of lung cancer, in a Brooklyn Hospital.

11. Under what flag is the ship Rome registered?
(a) Liberia.
(b) Mauritania.
(c) Pisa.
(d) Panama.

12. What disturbing sensation does Quoyle have when in the green house?
(a) That he is inside the belly of a whale.
(b) That the house is haunted by murdered sealers.
(c) That he is inside a tethered animal.
(d) That he is being spoken to by ghosts of the past.

13. What does Quoyle mail to Partridge?
(a) The editorial page of the paper.
(b) The Shipping News.
(c) A letter telling of Nutbeem's party.
(d) A copy of his Will.

14. Of which type of figurative language is this an example: 'The bay was an aluminum tray dotted with paper boats.'?
(a) Onomatopoeia
(b) Transfiguration.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

15. Who finally tells Bunny that Petal is dead?
(a) Agnis Hamm.
(b) Wavey.
(c) Quoyle.
(d) Jack Buggit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What dreadful family secret does Quoyle discover?

2. What is one surprising use for knots?

3. How is Nutbeem's bathroom unusual?

4. Where is the McGonigle Oil Field?

5. Why do Argentina and Paraguay refuse to play soccer in Peru?

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