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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. Where is the Melvilles' home?
(a) Toronto.
(b) Killick-Claw.
(c) Long Island.
(d) London.

2. What is Quoyle doing when Mr Shovel calls him?
(a) Writing a ackground story on a car wreck near Killick-Claw.
(b) Daydreaming about his love for Petal.
(c) Leaving to pick up Bunny.
(d) Rewriting a story Nutbeem had heard on the radio.

3. Why is Dawn keen to use the electric typewriter?
(a) She is secretly writing a novel.
(b) She secretly types job applications.
(c) She is keen to practice in order to get a better job.
(d) She secretly types love letters.

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

5. What is a synonym for 'mortification'?
(a) Locking in with a mortice.
(b) Transfiguration.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does Dawn want to escape?

2. Why does Sunshine exclaim that it is 'a ladder house'?

3. Why did Carl's hair turn white?

4. What problem did the newsprint carrier have?

5. How can the reader tell that Quoyle is self-conscious when he meets Mavis and Dawn?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do we learn about the aunt in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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