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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 happened at Perdition Cove?
(a) A boat blew up.
(b) There was a specacular car wreck.
(c) A shop caught fire.
(d) A boat sank.

2. What do Billy and Quoyle find?
(a) A smashed dory.
(b) A dying orca.
(c) A suitcase.
(d) A flotation device.

3. When was Mavis Bangs first married?
(a) At twenty-two.
(b) At forty.
(c) At fifteen.
(d) At eighteen.

4. What does the aunt do with her brother's ashes?
(a) Puts them in a special urn and places this on the mantelpiece.
(b) Scatters them from the wharf.
(c) Disposes them down the lavatory bowl.
(d) Scatters them in the woods.

5. How old was the harbor-master when he first went to sea?
(a) Fourteen.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Twenty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who buys sea urchin roe?

3. What group does Reverend Stain belong to?

4. Which character works in the school library twice a week?

5. How does the reader know Aunt Agnis doesn't like vinyl cladding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What change in Quoyle occurs following the incident of his article on the 'Hitler yacht'?

2. How does the aunt account for her wish to return to Newfoundland?

3. What insight into Jack Buggit does the harbormaster convey to Quoyle?

4. What is indicated by the image of Quoyle looking at the horizon?

5. Does Tert Card demonstrate the qualities required of a managing editor?

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

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

8. How did the Quoyle house come to be moved to the point where it now stands?

9. How important is the rhythm of their new lives for Quoyle and his family?

10. What is interesting about the idea of the aunt and Quoyle digging a garden patch?

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