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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 problem did the newsprint carrier have?
(a) A leaky throstle.
(b) A fire in the galley.
(c) A fire in the engine room.
(d) A drunken captain.

2. Which of Quoyle's jobs are listed on the first page of the novel?
(a) Bell-hop at a hotel, third-rate journalist, traveling salesman.
(b) Distributer of vending machine candy, all-night clerk in a convenience store, third-rate journalist.
(c) Rope-maker and knot-tester, cab driver, third-rate journalist.
(d) Greeting card writer, bell-hop at a hotel, all-night clerk at a convenience store.

3. What is a clove hitch?
(a) A type of knot.
(b) An old-fashioned way of pulling teeth.
(c) A spice used in French-Canadian cooking.
(d) A Canadian hitch-hiker.

4. What can be 'injurious as well as beneficial'?
(a) Falling in love with a mysterious person.
(b) Cod-fishing on the Grand Banks.
(c) Researching and writing news stories.
(d) The mysterious power of knots.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Quoyle not believe a word?

2. Which character 'sleeps as quiet as an eggbeater'?

3. What happened at Perdition Cove?

4. What is The Gammy Bird?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the green house on the point mean to the aunt?

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

3. Comment on the significance of the contents of the suitcase Quoyle finds floating in the water.

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

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

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

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

8. In what way are Billy and Quoyle connected?

9. Why do we feel at this point that there is cause to be optimistic about Quoyle's growing friendship with Wavey?

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

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