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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 | Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is part of the managing editor's job?
(a) Doing the advertisements.
(b) Sub-editing.
(c) Installing heating for the building.
(d) Doing the police rounds.

2. Identify the type of figurative language used in: 'sunset like a flock of birds on fire'.
(a) This is a metaphor.
(b) This is personification.
(c) This is a simile.
(d) This is metonymy.

3. Who was Quoyle's favorite child?
(a) Quoyle.
(b) Dick.
(c) Jane.
(d) Petal.

4. What is the subject of the story Quoyle tells his daughters?
(a) A sad dog.
(b) A moose.
(c) Baby penguins.
(d) Seals.

5. What is the meaning of the word 'atavistic'?
(a) Primitive and ignorant.
(b) Reversion to an earlier type.
(c) Being unable to speak.
(d) Musical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Petal tells Mrs Moosup she will leave the little girls in . . .

2. What damage did The Polar Grinder sustain in the terrible storm?

3. For how many years was Quoyle married to Petal?

4. How does the reader know Aunt Agnis doesn't like vinyl cladding?

5. What maritime connections does Quoyle have?

(see the answer key)

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