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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the three rules of rum in Newfoundland?
(a) Open the bottle as soon as it is put out, do not recork, put out one bottle at a time.
(b) Open only aged rum and recork after each round, never put out two whole bottles.
(c) Put out all of the rum, let one person open each bottle, recork when finished.
(d) Chill the rum for 12 hours, do not recork after opening, show three bottles at a time.

2. What did the American capitalist Cyrus Eaton welcome to Pugwash every year?
(a) The Seamen's Conference.
(b) The Thinkers' Conference.
(c) The Fishermen's Meeting.
(d) The Whalers' Weekend.

3. What did Mowat say was "by guess and by God?"
(a) The boat's compassless navigation.
(b) The weather on their first sail.
(c) The boat's leaking bow.
(d) The boat's wooden structure.

4. How many days did it take Mowat to arrive in St. John's?
(a) Three days.
(b) A week.
(c) Ten days.
(d) Five days.

5. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?
(a) It came in up through the bottom of the boat.
(b) It came in through the bow of the boat.
(c) It came in through the hole on the sdie of the boat.
(d) It came thorugh every pore of the boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mowat step on in the middle of the night aboard the Happy Adventure?

2. What did the Moulton boys catch while fishing in the pond beyond the harbor?

3. What was considered bad luck at the start of a voyage?

4. When did Mowat finally help Enos work on the boat?

5. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?

(see the answer key)

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