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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the doors all gone from the village homes after the war?
(a) Everyone took their door with them.
(b) Wild animals tore the doors off their hinges.
(c) Jimmy Greeno sold them to Norsemen.
(d) Hippies moved in and burned the doors for warmth.

2. How many Norday men are put on the list to be sent as seamen on His Majesty's men-of-war?
(a) 150.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 12.
(d) 50.

3. Who takes over the laird's Hall?
(a) King George II field marshal.
(b) Construction crew pub.
(c) Wing commander and military officers.
(d) Secretarial pool.

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

5. After Tina Lyde is chased off by Thorfinn's sister in chapter 6 what does Tina do?
(a) Becomes a nun.
(b) Stands at a distance, at twilight and looks towards Ingle.
(c) Marries a wealthy Irishman.
(d) Dresses as a man and hires on a fishing yacht.

6. Who is Major Schneider?
(a) British capitalist who produces Thorfinn's first book.
(b) English lord who supplies Thorfinn with paper.
(c) Old friend of John Evans who likes Thorfin's writing.
(d) German commander of prison camp and mentor to Thorfinn.

7. Why type of car does Thomas Vass drive?
(a) Austin Martin.
(b) Ford.
(c) Mercedes.
(d) Horse and buggy.

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

9. What do the Scottish and Irish laborers do when they arrive?
(a) Erect village of Nissen huts.
(b) Take over the main buildings and farm.
(c) Evict all the Norday residents.
(d) Cover a beach with concrete.

10. What does the Norday pastor pick up "beside the ocean of time" in chapter 5?
(a) Broch stones.
(b) Fossils.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Wisdom.

11. When the original Hall burns down, where does the laird stay that winter?
(a) Hovel on grounds of original Hall.
(b) Cave on isle of Westray.
(c) With Isa Estavoy.
(d) London hotel.

12. What does the greatest English sage of the 18th century say, according to chapter 6?
(a) Every man has a book in him.
(b) A writer will be born regardless of man's will.
(c) There is no truth in fiction.
(d) All things end in dust.

13. Where do the young Norday men hide from the military men and factor?
(a) Cliffs of Dover.
(b) Laird's Hall.
(c) Boats off shore.
(d) Caves.

14. Who arrives on the Raven one summer day in 1937?`
(a) Sophie.
(b) King George IV.
(c) Three important looking men who were surveyors.
(d) Thorfinn's mother and father.

15. Who is Selkie?
(a) Thorfinn's collie.
(b) Isa's cat.
(c) Laird's two year old chestnut colt.
(d) Sophie's twin sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thorfinn see, climbing hill Fea against the blue and white of the sky, in chapter 5?

2. How old is Thorfinn when he leaves school?

3. What does Matthew Ragnarson's dog Stalwart do when the workmen demolish Ingle's fence?

4. Whose house does Thorfinn come back to in chapter 8?

5. Where has the Reverend Hector Drummond arrived at Norday from?

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