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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 4 ("Back to the Wreck") through Chapter 6 ("Ernest and Me").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's response when Ernest says that he wishes they could have some butter?
(a) He tells Ernest to stop wishing for things and sit down and eat like everybody else.
(b) He says that he will look for a butter churn on board the ship.
(c) He asks Ernest if he has any ideas about how to make butter on the island.
(d) He is pleased to be able to surprise the family with some butter from the ship.

2. What suggestion does Fritz make about their barrel boat?
(a) That they scrap it in favor of a flat raft.
(b) That they create outriggers to stabilize it.
(c) That they seal the barrels with sap.
(d) That they attach a mast and sail.

3. How do the narrator and Fritz get the sheep and goats to shore?
(a) Swimming belts.
(b) The sheep and goats get themselves to shore.
(c) In their boat.
(d) A raft.

4. What do they make dog armor from?
(a) Shark skin.
(b) Porcupine quills.
(c) Turtle shells.
(d) Coconut shells.

5. What does the narrator decide they need to build before they can build the treehouse?
(a) Storage for their gunpowder.
(b) A better boat.
(c) A bridge.
(d) A shelter for the animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack offer to make for the dogs?

2. When the tree house is proposed, what is the narrator's response?

3. What does the family decide to name "Tentholm"?

4. Who is the original author of The Swiss Family Robinson?

5. On their first day on the island, what creature attacks Jack in an inlet of the bay?

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