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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Detailed Summary & Analysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does he get something to eat?
(a) He eats some of the rotting sardines and hopes it does not make him sick.
(b) He catches seaweed and shakes the small shrimp out of it.
(c) He puts the small line into the water and catches a tuna.
(d) He cuts a slice out of the marlin.

2. How does Santiago know that he is not dead?
(a) He feels hungry.
(b) He pinches himself.
(c) He falls down when he tries to get to the tiller.
(d) He can bring back the pain in his hands by opening and closing them.

3. What happens to Santiago as he carries the mast up the hill?
(a) He falls and cannot get up.
(b) He has a heart attack and dies.
(c) He gets tangled up in the sail.
(d) He hears the boy calling his name.

4. What does Santiago think there are people who are paid to do?
(a) Understand the omens.
(b) Build bigger boats than his.
(c) Write books about fishing.
(d) Think about sin.

5. What does Santiago dream of?
(a) The women he has known in his youth.
(b) Africa and the lions on the beach.
(c) Fishing in a new, large boat.
(d) The fights he had when he was young.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Santiago say should get the head of the marlin?

2. To what does Santiago compare his damaged hands while harpooning the shark?

3. Does Santiago think of the wind as his friend?

4. Why does Santiago decide to go farther out to sea than usual?

5. During the time Santiago had the marlin on his line, what does he think the marlin does not know?

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