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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 is seemingly the identity of the corpse Quoyle found?
(a) Mr Buggit.
(b) Mr Partridge.
(c) Mr Kennedy.
(d) Mr Melville.

2. Who finally tells Bunny that Petal is dead?
(a) Jack Buggit.
(b) Quoyle.
(c) Wavey.
(d) Agnis Hamm.

3. Where did Bunny find the string?
(a) On the doorstep.
(b) On Quoyle's typewriter.
(c) Hanging on a bush.
(d) In the car.

4. What happened to the old lighthouse?
(a) It was burnt down.
(b) It was blown up by Quebec separatists.
(c) It fell into the sea.
(d) It was smashed by a tsunami.

5. What experience does Tert Card say makes one 'cry with pleasure'?
(a) Arriving in Florida.
(b) Getting through the winter.
(c) Drinking fresh orange juice.
(d) Taking off from Misky Bay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Billy Pretty's attitude to travel?

2. What does Quoyle mail to Partridge?

3. What aspect of journalism did Nutbeem handle well?

4. What does Herry perform?

5. What dreadful family secret does Quoyle discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what sense is the new boat symbolic?

2. In what way is Bunny's attention-seeking during the restaurant dinner important?

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

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

5. What is important about Quoyle's encounter with Cousin Nolan?

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

7. Comment on the reception given Quoyle's piece about oil tankers.

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

9. Comment on the destruction of the green house on the point.

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

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