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

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

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

4. What is part of the managing editor's job?
(a) Doing the police rounds.
(b) Sub-editing.
(c) Installing heating for the building.
(d) Doing the advertisements.

5. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.
(a) This is a simile.
(b) This is personification.
(c) This is metonymy.
(d) This is a metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wavey notice in Archie Sparks' yard?

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

3. From what does Dawn want to escape?

4. Who introduces Quoyle and Wavey?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What major fear does Quoyle face up to in Chapter 12?

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

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

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

5. In what way is the appearance of the Botterjacht ironic?

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

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

8. In what way is the aunt's reaction to the appearance of the distant Quoyle different from her nephew's?

9. In what way are Billy and Quoyle connected?

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

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