The Shipping News
Chapters 1-3
Questions and Definitions Answer all questions in-depth and in complete sentences.
Throughout these three chapters find fifteen (15) words and give definitions (1/2 pt. each)
Chapter 1 – QUOYLE (12 Points)
Chapters 1-3
Questions and Definitions Answer all questions in-depth and in complete sentences.
Throughout these three chapters find fifteen (15) words and give definitions (1/2 pt. each)
Chapter 1 – QUOYLE (12 Points)
- (2) What does the min character, Quoyle’s, name actually mean?
- (3) In 3-4 sentences, give a physical description of what Quoyle looks like.
- (2)What does it mean on page 6 when it says, “The salary was pathetic, but Quoyle didn’t know?”
- (2) What, according to Ed Punch, was Quoyle’s only skill in the game of life?
- (3) Knowing Quoyle as you do after the first chapter, what signifigance does his name (as explained in question one) have to do with his character?
- (5) In 5-6 sentences in your own words, give a brief description of the relationship between Quoyle and Petal Bear.
- (3) What does it mean that, ‘Quoyle believed in silent suffering, did not see that it goaded?’
- (2) What does the description of Quoyle as, ‘an abandoned and cuckolded husband, a widower’, foreshadow?
- (2) How does quoyle make excuses for Petal’s behaviour to his Aunt?
- (3) Who was Quoyle’s grandfather, how did he die, and what age was he?
- (2) Why did Quoyle refer to his grandfather as incestuous?
- (2) What happened to the the children as a result of Petal taking them?