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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Mowat's father buy at an auction when Mowat was a child?
(a) Antique furniture for their home.
(b) Bees and bee keeping equipment.
(c) A tractor and other farm equipment.
(d) A Quick Bake cast iron oven for their kitchen.

2. Who did Wilbur say he was when Mowat first met him?
(a) A car repairman.
(b) An old seaman.
(c) A short order cook.
(d) The local drunk.

3. What did Mowat refer to as the most salient quality of Newfoundlanders?
(a) Pessimism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Delusion.
(d) Optimism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Howard Morry?

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

3. What kind of fish did Morry and Mowat fish for early one morning?

4. How much did Mowat pay for the boat he bought outside of Muddy Hole?

5. Who did Mowat find cooking breakfast for him the morning after his first day's driving?

(see the answer key)

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