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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Matilda Kerrigan do to the three surveyors?
(a) Drowns them in the ocean.
(b) Attacks their equipment.
(c) Shoots them with a rifle.
(d) Invites them to stay with her.

2. What happens when the Sea King ship is sighted?
(a) All gather in the church and pray.
(b) The army is sent to shore to defend the village.
(c) Flocks are driven in, fishermen hide in caves, families in the broch.
(d) Everyone runs to boats and tries to escape the island.

3. What is a croft?
(a) Carving skills.
(b) Group of bairns.
(c) Fishing boat.
(d) Farm.

4. In chapter 6 what does Thorfinn dream of?
(a) Solan Goose.
(b) Brochs.
(c) Sophie and Selkie.
(d) Press gangs and seal people.

5. In the 1930s what does the broch on Norday Island look like?
(a) No longer exists.
(b) 40 foot stone castle structure in village center.
(c) Three entwined circular structures made of small stones.
(d) Circular ruin on the shore's edge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the shepherd who lives up in the high mountain pass in chapter 2?

2. When Sir James MacTavish arrives at the monastery what are the monks doing?

3. How old is Thorfinn when he leaves school?

4. After Tina Lyde is chased off by Thorfinn's sister in chapter 6 what does Tina do?

5. What instrument does the boy poet of the broch play?

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