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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .
(a) Moose Lake
(b) Florida
(c) Killick-Claw
(d) Connecticut

3. What damage did The Polar Grinder sustain in the terrible storm?
(a) The bridge was swept away, the captain with it.
(b) A crack in the steel hull from starboard to port.
(c) It broke in half.
(d) It was dismasted.

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

5. What gives Quoyle a headache?
(a) Rinsing calamari.
(b) The smell of paint.
(c) The steam in the kitchen.
(d) The smell of turned earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the harbor-master when he first went to sea?

2. What evidence confirms to Agnis that she had seen a man close by?

3. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.

4. Why is Home Rock important?

5. What happens when Quoyle slows his boat down quickly?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way is Bunny showing herself to be different from her father?

2. How does the aunt respond to Quoyle's doubt over his ability to do the job?

3. What is revealed to Quoyle during the trip to Gaze Island with Billy Pretty?

4. Account for Quoyle's cherished hope that he was, in fact, a changeling.

5. What is the significance of Agnis' relationship with Irene Warren?

6. What does Chapter 10 show the reader about the relationship of people to the sea?

7. How does Annie Proulx utilize symbolism in the account of Billy's and Quoyle's journey back from Gaze Island?

8. What are Quoyle's expectations of marriage and how is the reality different for him?

9. How does Quoyle respond to the news about the Quoyles' past?

10. What is important, symbolically, about Quoyle's reluctance to move into the house on the point?

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