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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 type of movie does Beety want Quoyle to hire?
(a) An Australian comedy.
(b) An American comedy.
(c) Anything starring Robert Carlyle.
(d) A movie about vampire lesbians.

2. Of which type of figurative language is this an example: 'The bay was an aluminum tray dotted with paper boats.'?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Transfiguration.
(d) Onomatopoeia

3. What movie character does Quoyle feel Benny resembles?
(a) Captain Nemo.
(b) Mad Max.
(c) Captain Queeg.
(d) Eraserhead.

4. What disturbing sensation does Quoyle have when in the green house?
(a) That he is being spoken to by ghosts of the past.
(b) That he is inside a tethered animal.
(c) That the house is haunted by murdered sealers.
(d) That he is inside the belly of a whale.

5. Who used skin boats?
(a) The pioneers.
(b) The Quoyles.
(c) The French.
(d) The Inuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the audience reaction when Sunshine calls out to Bunny and Marty?

2. Who is Alvin's niece?

3. What news does Dennis phone through to Quoyle?

4. What is Dawn's attitude to Florida?

5. What dreadful family secret does Quoyle discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret is exposed during the visit to St John's?

2. What convincing evidence is there in this chapter of Quoyle's aptness for the new life he is making at Killick-Claw?

3. What good personal quality of Quoyle's almost costs him his life?

4. What are the implied advantages of the green house?

5. What behaviors show the reader how the relationship between Quoyle and Wavey is developing?

6. In what shape is the local Newfoundland economy?

7. In what way is Quoyle's discovery of the body important to the narrative?

8. In what way has Quoyle reached a turning point in his life?

9. From the description of it in this chapter, is it possible Quoyle would enjoy living in Nutbeem's trailer?

10. What is the outcome of Bunny's attack on the teacher?

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