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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 boat is being fixed up at the beginning of chapter 8?
(a) Thorfinn Ragnarson's Selkie.
(b) Matthew Ragnaron's Seascape.
(c) Jacob Olafson's Scallop.
(d) James MacTavish's Rivals.

2. What type of book does Thorfinn write while in prison?
(a) Non fiction essay.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Romance novel.
(d) Mystery novel.

3. What is Thorfinn given in the prison camp to help him write?
(a) English teacher.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Typewriter.
(d) German dictionary.

4. What upsets the farmers about the arrival of the workmen?
(a) Farms are being taken by the government.
(b) The workmen are very lazy.
(c) Young women want to marry the workmen.
(d) Dust is raised in the construction process.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Ragna courting in chapter 6?

3. Why is the present laird so poor?

4. What is Thorfinn working on at the start of chapter 8?

5. Who does Jimmy Greenay save from drowning in chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Did the peace treaty between Chamberlain and Hitler stop the work on the Norday Aerodrome?

2. In chapter 6, what is Elphinstone's role in rounding up the young men for military service?

3. Why was the present laird, Mr. Harcourt-Smithers, so much poorer than his forefathers?

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

5. Why did Sophie come back to Norday Island in the end?

6. What did Winnie Swona do when some of her hens disappeared from the henhouse during the aerodrome building?

7. Why do the seal people rush back into the sea?

8. In chapter five one of the previous minister uses the title of the book when referring to fossils. What does he mean?

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

10. Why does the seal girl, Mara, not follow the seal-people into the sea?

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