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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 Elphinstone's role on Norday?
(a) Laird's factor.
(b) Pastor.
(c) Sheriff of Norday.
(d) Teacher.

2. What are the names of Mr. Harcourt-Smither's granddaughters?
(a) Josie and Margaret.
(b) Ragna and Magdalena.
(c) Mara and Vass.
(d) Debbie and Penny.

3. What is the one action Thorfinn takes in chapter 7?
(a) Writes a historical novel about the aerodrome.
(b) Leaves the island.
(c) Drinks to the health of MacTavish.
(d) Joins the construction crew.

4. What are the two big houses on Norday Island?
(a) Town hall and village inn.
(b) King George's summer home and Isa's farmhouse.
(c) Broch and Smylder.
(d) Minister's manse and laird's hall.

5. Who brings Thorfinn his supplies on the deserted Norday Island now that everyone else has gone?
(a) Sophie, on the horse Selkie.
(b) Supplies are dropped by air.
(c) Ragna Magnarson.
(d) Mansie Drever, the Selskay fisherman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rings for the first time on Norday, brought by the workmen?

2. What do the Scottish and Irish laborers do when they arrive?

3. What piece of technology does Matthew Ragnarson bring home in chapter 6?

4. What is Matilda Kerrigan known as in Norday Island?

5. In the actual history what happens to Prince Charles Edward after he escapes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the Ragnarson's dog, Stalwart, do when the workers came to tear down the fences in order that Ingle might become part of the Aerodrome building site?

2. What is happening to both the laird's house and the minister's manse in chapter 5?

3. Who is Major Schneider?

4. What does Thomas Vass think about the arrival of work crews and machinery on Norday Island during the war?

5. Why are all the doors gone from the island homes when Thorfinn returns to Norday after many years absence?

6. When the workmen are sent to build the aerodrome on Norday Island they are quite unhappy. What cheers them up?

7. According to chapter 5, how did the lairds of old manage to be so wealthy?

8. What does Thorfinn do when he returns to the island after the war?

9. What does Thorfinn find when he goes, after many long years, back to the loft where he had locked up Mara's seal skin?

10. Why did the Westvoe farm catch on fire and burn to the ground?

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