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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who loses concept of time?
(a) The captain.
(b) The cook.
(c) The four men.
(d) The oiler.

2. What does the captain use to get rid of their intruders?
(a) He cannot get rid of them.
(b) His rifle.
(c) An oar.
(d) His good arm.

3. What do the waves seem determined to do?
(a) Escort the men to safety on land.
(b) The waves do not seem determined.
(c) Sweep the captain out of the boat and into the sea.
(d) Drown the dingy.

4. What aims at the captain's head?
(a) Waves.
(b) Wind.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Seagulls.

5. What are the men facing in Part 2?
(a) Each other.
(b) Being rescued.
(c) Starvation.
(d) A wall of water rushing at them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calms the dispute towards the end of Part 1?

2. Who takes two oars first?

3. What floats by to taunt the men?

4. Who commands the tiny boat?

5. What idea seems optimistic at best?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the captain interrupts the correspondent's reverie, what does he say, and how do the men react?

2. Throughout their adventure, how does the relationship between the four men change, and why?

3. What is the captain doing in Part 1?

4. Near the end of Part 5, what does the correspondent want, and why?

5. What happens after the sail is constructed, and how do the four men feel about it?

6. What does the captain advise the others to do at the end of Part 3?

7. How does the captain try to calm the other three men?

8. What story does the correspondent recall reading?

9. As the correspondent reaches the shore, what does he see the oiler doing?

10. After the oiler takes the correspondent's place at the oars in Part 6, what does the captain tell the cook to do, and why?

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