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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are fish flakes?
(a) Fish food.
(b) Scales from fish that fall to the ground.
(c) Fish that has been cured.
(d) Racks for drying fish.

2. What was the original name given to Ferryland?
(a) Fervilan.
(b) Farillon.
(c) Feriland.
(d) Fairyland.

3. What was called the Country of the Masterless Men?
(a) The southern mointains.
(b) The center of the country.
(c) The interior of the peninsula.
(d) The northern mountains.

4. What was Cape Pine?
(a) A bay filled with pine trees.
(b) A lodge on the northern shore.
(c) A bleak rock jutting out into the water.
(d) A town just north of Muddy Hole.

5. Why did Jack McClelland not arrive in St. John's by plane as he had planned?
(a) The fog was too dense.
(b) There were mechanical problems on the plane.
(c) A hurricane was whipping up.
(d) He decided he wanted to come by boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are a ship's trials?

2. Where did Mowat attend an auction as an adult?

3. How did Mowat describe the water leaking into his boat?

4. Who did Mowat credit as being a master improviser?

5. What was the William Carson?

(see the answer key)

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