Character
What is the main character's name? (First and last)
Abel Jackson
What is the name of the place Abel and Dora live?
Longboat Bay
What is Abel's first reaction to meeting Blueback?
Who is the author of Blueback?
Tim Winton
Name the five concepts/themes in the book.
Belonging, family, learning, nature as well as time and change.
What is the name of the place that Abel and Dora fish?
Robbers Head
Marine Biologist
What is a quote?
A piece lifted word for word from the text.
What is Abel and Stella's daughter's name?
Dora
Name one difference between the Longboat Bay and the town Abel goes to school
The town he goes to school in is not near the ocean
What was one of the mysterious things that happened to Dora when she was refusing the developers?
Roads rough and potholed, mail late or wet, fuel/petrol had water in it, bushfires in the middle of winter.
"They stood like posts and broken teeth and tombstones where the storm had exposed them" is an example of what language feature?
Symbolism or simile
What is the name of Abel's wife?
Stella
What do the developers want to do with Longboat Bay
Build hotels/Use it for tourism
What boat does Abel inherit?
Mad Macka's boat
What language feature is used in the quote, "Both things were mysteries; they tied his mind up in knots but he never gave up wondering."
Metaphor
What is on the front cover of the magazine that Dora sends Abel and Stella?
Blueback and two divers
Where was Abel diving when he realised he was older than his father?
"Abel was home on the holidays when all the _______ died." What word is missing?
Pilchards
What year was the novel published?
1997