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

2. Who does Thorfinn assume has stayed on the deserted island?
(a) Matthew Ragnarson.
(b) Jimmy Greeno.
(c) Janet Olafson.
(d) One of the hippie families.

3. How does Thorfinn imagine Prince Charles life after the escape?
(a) Living out his years as a crofter on Norday Island.
(b) A glorious death on the fields of battle.
(c) Full of pomp and circumstance.
(d) Becoming a great writer of romance novels.

4. What does Thorfinn see, climbing hill Fea against the blue and white of the sky, in chapter 5?
(a) A yellow haired girl on a horse.
(b) A red fox.
(c) A flock of geese flying east.
(d) His mother's ghost.

5. Where does Thomas Vass move after Norday is deserted?
(a) Boston.
(b) London.
(c) Iran.
(d) Kirkcaldy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the present Mr. Harcourt-Smithers known for?

2. What is a press-gang?

3. In chapter 7 what appears just off the shore of Norday?

4. Who is Thomas Vass?

5. What three chocolate bars are mentioned in chapter 6's description of the festival celebration?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Mara react when a seal is captured and killed by the fishermen?

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

5. How is the story Mr. Simon is telling the class (early in chapter 5) relevant to the fantasy sequence in which Thorfinn marries a seal wife?

6. Why was Mistress Ragnarson not afraid to catch consumption from her son Thorfinn (in chapter 6)?

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

8. Who is Sophie?

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

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

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