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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Jack unable to get a clerk to wait on him in the stores in St. John's?
(a) Because it was socially improper to wait on a foreigner.
(b) Because all of the stores were self-service.
(c) Because Jack was overdressed for the town.
(d) Because it was socially demeaning for a clerk to wait on a customer.

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

3. What boat pulled up next to Mowat and Jack as they were sailing naked on the Happy Adventure?
(a) A sightseeing boat filled with tourists.
(b) An ocean liner.
(c) A boat filled with fishermen.
(d) A military police boat.

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

5. Why did Jack McClelland decide not to join Mowat for another season of sailing?
(a) He had taken ill over the winter.
(b) He was moving to Seattle.
(c) His family and friends forbade it.
(d) He was no longer interested in sailing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a radar detector Mowat needed for his boat?

2. What was the William Carson?

3. To what was Jack McClelland severely allergic?

4. What did Enos lose when he went into the woods to hunt caribou?

5. Who was Dolph Moulton?

(see the answer key)

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