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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when Gaffett and his companion left "the waiting place"?
(a) The townspeople seemed to taunt them.
(b) The animals watched as they moved out of sight.
(c) The coastline disappeared.
(d) They worried that they would freeze.

2. What does the narrator compare Dunnet Landing's cottage windows to?
(a) Knowing eyes that watch over the community members.
(b) Gingerbread windows.
(c) Windows into the lives and souls of the people in town.
(d) Knowing eyes that look toward the sea.

3. How does the narrator react to the Captain's story?
(a) She has always believed in such things.
(b) She believes that the story is true.
(c) She is skeptical.
(d) She believes that a man like the Captain can only tell the truth.

4. What does the author compare knowing a village like Dunnet Landing to?
(a) Becoming acquainted with a single person.
(b) A walk on a familiar forest path.
(c) Coming home.
(d) Getting to know a friend better.

5. Where did Gaffett say he had previously been shipwrecked?
(a) Canada.
(b) Off the coast of Greenland.
(c) Near Scotland.
(d) Iceland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of year does the story take place?

2. What does the narrator assert during the beginning of her conversation with Captain Littlepage in Chapter 5?

3. What did Gaffett and his companion do after going on land?

4. Where do the narrator and Mrs. Todd find some time to chat?

5. What does the narrator remember Mrs. Todd saying about Captain Littlepage?

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