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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Kitty Fea?
(a) Lobster boat.
(b) Warship.
(c) Harbor store.
(d) Ale house.

3. What is this "crudded milk, fantastical puff-paste" that George Mackay Brown speaks of in chapter 6?
(a) Insubstantial pastry.
(b) Our body.
(c) No purpose in life.
(d) Angels who fall from heights.

4. What three chocolate bars are mentioned in chapter 6's description of the festival celebration?
(a) Cadbury, Fry and Rowntree.
(b) Milk, Dark and Semi-Sweet.
(c) Hershey, Ghiradelhi and Snickers.
(d) LIndt, Swiss and Bardor.

5. What political persuasion describes Thomas Vass?
(a) Liberal.
(b) Conservative.
(c) Tory.
(d) Socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men of Norday clean their pipes with?

2. What is at the center of a broch?

3. In the 1930s what does the broch on Norday Island look like?

4. Who arrives on the Raven one summer day in 1937?`

5. What do the Norday villagers use to attack from the broch?

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