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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens by midnight as Santiago returns to the land?
(a) His hands are well enough to use both of them with the club.
(b) He is able to fight off the sharks in the dark.
(c) The sharks come in a pack to get the rest of the marlin.
(d) The sharks leave as he gets near the city.

2. When the marlin slows and is steady, Santiago finally gets some sleep. What does he dream of instead of lions?
(a) A vast school of porpoises.
(b) A flight on a plane.
(c) Cutting his hand on the fishing line.
(d) Arm wrestling with the marlin.

3. After killing the Mako shark, what does Santiago eat?
(a) The liver of the dead dolphin.
(b) More of the dried flying fish.
(c) Nothing. All his food is gone.
(d) A piece of the marlin where the shark had bitten it.

4. What brings the shark towards Santiago's boat?
(a) The sound of Santiago talking out loud.
(b) A dark cloud of blood from the marlin.
(c) The flying fish jumping along side the boat.
(d) A school of dolphins following the boat.

5. What brings Santiago awake suddenly in the night?
(a) The smell of the leftover raw fish.
(b) The marlin is jumping again and again out of the sea.
(c) Another plane flies over at a low altitude.
(d) It starts to rain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Santiago doing when the boy returns to his shack?

3. In great pain from the cold, what does the old man hope for?

4. What does Santiago consider as his principal friends on the ocean?

5. What does the old man imagine about the marlin if it had been alive?

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