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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some of the workers do when the granite industry folds?
(a) They start their own businesses on the mainland.
(b) They revolt against the overseers.
(c) They try lobster fishing but give up easily.
(d) They turn to lobster fishing.

2. What does Ruth like to do as a child?
(a) Swim.
(b) Catch fireflies.
(c) Eavesdrop.
(d) Eat flowers.

3. What is Senator Simon Adams terrified of?
(a) Monsters.
(b) Fire.
(c) The dark.
(d) The sea.

4. Which of the following do Fort Niles and Courne Haven have in common?
(a) Community leaders.
(b) Geology.
(c) Ethnicity.
(d) Island shape and size.

5. What produces a distinctive population on these islands?
(a) The settlers did not and have not married outside their race.
(b) A native race that resides only on these islands.
(c) The intermarriage among the Scottish and the Irish.
(d) The intermarriage among the Germans and the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are the men on the islands described?

2. Why doesn't Simon attend the funeral in Chapter 1?

3. Who is Ruth?

4. Why does Simon tell Rhonda not to sell her husband's boat and gear?

5. How many children does Ebbett have?

(see the answer key)

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