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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What damage did The Polar Grinder sustain in the terrible storm?
(a) It was dismasted.
(b) A crack in the steel hull from starboard to port.
(c) It broke in half.
(d) The bridge was swept away, the captain with it.

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. Why does Quoyle think he might have to take Wavey to the prairies?
(a) He'd like to try farming.
(b) The climate might be better for her.
(c) So that Herry can go to a special school.
(d) So she will be far from memories of her husband's death.

4. What is The Gammy Bird?
(a) The name of a boat.
(b) The name of a newspaper.
(c) The name of a motel.
(d) A species of gannet.

5. What is described as a 'gelatinous horror'?
(a) The dessert at the restaurant at Desperate Cove.
(b) A mess of decomposing cod.
(c) A squidburger.
(d) Bayonet Melville's head.

6. How much money did Wavey's father make on berries in the previous year?
(a) Five hundred dollars.
(b) A thousand dollars.
(c) Twelve hundred dollars.
(d) Two thousand dollars.

7. How old is Jack Buggit?
(a) Seventy-seven.
(b) Sixty-nine.
(c) Fifty-seven.
(d) Seventy-three.

8. Why does Petal telephone Quoyle from Montgomery?
(a) To ask him how to cure a hangover.
(b) To tell him she is divorcing him.
(c) To ask him how to make an Alabama Slammer.
(d) To ask him to join her there.

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

10. What job did Quoyle's father have?
(a) Hardware buyer at Macy's.
(b) Produce manager in a supermarket.
(c) Clothing buyer for Wal-Mart.
(d) Hardware manager in a supermarket.

11. Why is Gaze Island important to Billy?
(a) His wife and child are buried there.
(b) He owns land there.
(c) His father is buried there.
(d) He spent his honeymoon there.

12. What is the distinctive feature of the Quoyle house?
(a) An odd roof-line.
(b) It's painted bright green.
(c) The carving on the gables.
(d) A window flanked by two smaller ones.

13. How is Agnis Hamm related to Quoyle's father?
(a) She is his sister.
(b) She is his brother's wife.
(c) She is his second cousin.
(d) She is his ex-wife.

14. What is a clove hitch?
(a) A spice used in French-Canadian cooking.
(b) An old-fashioned way of pulling teeth.
(c) A type of knot.
(d) A Canadian hitch-hiker.

15. What gives Quoyle a headache?
(a) The steam in the kitchen.
(b) The smell of paint.
(c) Rinsing calamari.
(d) The smell of turned earth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did the Melvilles pay Agnis for the boat upholstery?

3. Who introduces Quoyle and Wavey?

4. How old was the harbor-master when he first went to sea?

5. What does the aunt do with her brother's ashes?

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