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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the McGonigle Oil Field?
(a) Between Ireland and northern Canada.
(b) Under the Grand Banks.
(c) Twenty kilometres from Killick-Claw.
(d) In Hudson Bay.

2. What's wrong with Marty's writing?
(a) She writes the letter 'd' backwards.
(b) She makes the letter 's' backwards.
(c) It looks like a chicken scratching.
(d) She writes the letter 't' upside down.

3. What happened to the old lighthouse?
(a) It was burnt down.
(b) It fell into the sea.
(c) It was blown up by Quebec separatists.
(d) It was smashed by a tsunami.

4. What season is best for boat-building?
(a) Fall.
(b) Spring.
(c) Winter.
(d) Summer.

5. Where will Agnis be working?
(a) Montreal.
(b) St Jude's.
(c) St John's.
(d) Long Island.

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

7. How is Quoyle's routine described?
(a) As distinctive.
(b) As frenetic.
(c) As simple.
(d) As elaborate.

8. What country was Myanmar formerly known as?
(a) Burma.
(b) Terra del Fuego.
(c) Ceylon.
(d) Bhutan.

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

10. What was the vehicle used by the masked attacker?
(a) A blue Yamaha motor scooter.
(b) A blue Yamaha snowmobile.
(c) A silver Yamaha snowmobile.
(d) A yellow snow taxi.

11. How does Quoyle feel about middle age?
(a) It horrifies him.
(b) He wonders about his biological clock.
(c) It doesn't frighten him.
(d) He thinks he might enjoy it.

12. Why did Mr Nightingale cancel his classified ad?
(a) His boat suddenly made a profit.
(b) He had run out of money.
(c) His boat sank.
(d) He sold using a roadside sign.

13. In the end, what does Quoyle learn?
(a) To manage a boat.
(b) That love doesn't have to be associated with pain and misery.
(c) To discipline Bunny and Sunshine.
(d) That he's actually a good journalist.

14. Who humiliated Herry Prowse?
(a) The school principal.
(b) Hetty Pretty.
(c) Bunny.
(d) Mrs Lumbull.

15. What can't Herry be told?
(a) That he is seriously ill.
(b) That his father is unknown.
(c) That his Dad was a rat.
(d) That his father is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new job will Tert Card have?

2. What is the outcome of the conflict over the piece on oil tankers?

3. Under what flag is the ship Rome registered?

4. What fell from the latch as Quoyle exited?

5. What does Wavey wonder about?

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