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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Skipper Will invented?
(a) A new style of snow-shoe.
(b) A device for harnessing moose.
(c) A new recipe for cod chowder.
(d) A squidburger.

2. What unusual sight do Quoyle and Wavey see as they return with the lunch basket?
(a) A strange ship.
(b) A pod of whales.
(c) A collapsing iceberg.
(d) Green sausageweed and coralweed.

3. Why does Bunny need to bring a box of tissues to school?
(a) She's been told these are needed for Art classes.
(b) For making papier-mache.
(c) For stuffling pincushions.
(d) She's been told that the school cannot afford to supply tissues.

4. How is Nutbeem's bathroom unusual?
(a) There is a built-in TV in the shower recess.
(b) There is a makeshift bath in the shower recess.
(c) There is an old firehose in the shower recess.
(d) There is a bidet.

5. What is a synonym for 'mortification'?
(a) Locking in with a mortice.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Death.
(d) Transfiguration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Carl's hair turn white?

2. According to Beety, what can you never have too many of?

3. How can the reader tell that Quoyle is self-conscious when he meets Mavis and Dawn?

4. How much money did Wavey's father make on berries in the previous year?

5. Where do Quoyle and Nutbeem go for the ice they need?

(see the answer key)

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