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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of things did Passion Flower carry back to Muddy Hole from St. Shotts?
(a) Nails, hammers, lumber, and saws.
(b) Rope, an anchor, and food.
(c) Portlights, bronze, and brass fittings.
(d) Food, fittings, and a case of rum.

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

3. What kind of plant pumped its waste into the water at the slip in which Mowat's boat rested?
(a) A shoe factory.
(b) A rubber plant.
(c) A cereal factory.
(d) A fish plant.

4. What ship did Jack and Mowat name their boat after?
(a) The Queen Mary.
(b) The Halloran brother's ship.
(c) A toy ship Jack once had as a child.
(d) Peter Easton's ship.

5. How old was Howard Morry?
(a) In his thirties.
(b) In his eighties.
(c) In his sixties.
(d) In his fifties.

6. How did Jack, Mowat, and their friends christen the Happy Adventure?
(a) They sat in her cabin and toasted their new boat.
(b) They hit the bow with a bottle of rum.
(c) They went into town and bought drinks for everyone in the bar.
(d) They took her out in the bay and drank a toast.

7. What color was the boat Mowat purchased from the Hallohans?
(a) A vile color green.
(b) Blue and white.
(c) A deep black.
(d) White.

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

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

10. How long did the men work on the Happy Adventure in Trepassey?
(a) Just a few days.
(b) Over a month.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) About a week.

11. What was the major crop on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Beets.
(d) Onions.

12. Who was the Man Who Gets Things Done?
(a) Jack McClelland.
(b) Paddy Hallohan.
(c) Mark Horwood.
(d) Farley Mowat.

13. What was the Southern Shore bummer?
(a) The story about a ship wreck horwood told.
(b) The kind of ship Horwood found for Mowat.
(c) The name of the bar on the southern shore.
(d) The ship McClelland owned.

14. What did Mowat get on the shopping day in St. John's?
(a) A box of nails.
(b) An anchor and rope.
(c) Six bottles of rum.
(d) Lumber for repairing the boat.

15. How did Mowat cook while living on the boat?
(a) With a bonfire.
(b) With a gasoline stove.
(c) With a grill.
(d) With an hibachi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the William Carson?

2. What happened to Morry's transcription of his memories of Ferryland?

3. How did the Happy Adventure leave harbor on her first voyage?

4. What did Jack do for most of the Happy Adventure's first voyage?

5. What came special delivery to Mowat and Jack as they worked on their broken boat engine?

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