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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. Why is it claimed that biologists have visited the Tough Baby?
(a) To use the boat as a base for tagging Minke whales.
(b) To collect the rare marine specimens collected.
(c) To view the numerous carvings of animals and birds that decorate it.
(d) To inspect a new species of squid.

2. What is the man in the dory doing?
(a) Inspecting whelk pots.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Inspecting lobster pots.
(d) Diving for abolone.

3. According to stories, how was the Quoyle house brought to its present location?
(a) Cut into sections and moved in by barge.
(b) Prefabricated in Montreal and trucked in bit by bit.
(c) Cut in half and moved by road train.
(d) Dragged across the ice.

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

5. Which people are described as wild, inbred half-wits and murderers?
(a) The Quoyles.
(b) The Cards.
(c) The Hamms.
(d) The Buggits.

Short Answer Questions

1. When is the library open?

2. The bay's appearance on the map is shown as . . .

3. What do Billy and Quoyle find?

4. Why does Billy go to the clinic?

5. What was unusual about the Net-Man?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Quoyle feel about Bunny's problems at school?

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