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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 has Skipper Will invented?
(a) A device for harnessing moose.
(b) A new style of snow-shoe.
(c) A squidburger.
(d) A new recipe for cod chowder.

2. What is described as a 'gelatinous horror'?
(a) A squidburger.
(b) A mess of decomposing cod.
(c) Bayonet Melville's head.
(d) The dessert at the restaurant at Desperate Cove.

3. What other strange occurrence is mentioned?
(a) A ghost ship in the bay.
(b) Frogs raining down in Misky Bay.
(c) The return of the Flying Dutchman.
(d) A fall of frozen ducks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Quoyle benefit from Petal's death?

2. What function did Misky Bay fulfill during the war?

3. Whose ancestor resorted to cannibalism?

4. Who buys sea urchin roe?

5. In what way is a nip important to a knot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Quoyle's attitude to Petal and her death?

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

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

6. In what way are Billy and Quoyle connected?

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

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

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

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

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