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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapter 16 ("A Winged Steed") through Chapter 18 ("Repairs and Fortifications").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," what does the narrator do when he finds it difficult to train the animals to pull with a yoke?
(a) Keeps trying until he succeeds.
(b) Gives up and works on another project.
(c) Reads a book in their library about how to train the animals.
(d) Asks Ernest for advice.

2. Who thinks of eating their soup from oyster shells?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Ernest.
(c) Jack.
(d) Elizabeth.

3. How does the family end up alone on the ship?
(a) The family has trouble locating Franz.
(b) The family is asleep when the order is given to take to the lifeboats.
(c) Elizabeth insists on going back below for the family Bible.
(d) The sailors get into the lifeboats and abandon them.

4. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what "moist secret" (284) does Jack bring back to Rockburg?
(a) Catfish.
(b) Clay.
(c) Water lilies.
(d) Bullfrogs.

5. Whose idea is it to make the boat out of barrels?
(a) Jack.
(b) Frtiz.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Ernest.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what new kind of bird does the family begin keeping at Rock House?

2. What do they make their swimming belts from?

3. At the beginning of Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what does Elizabeth ask the narrator to construct?

4. Chapter 12, "Anniversary," what talent does Franz unexpectedly display?

5. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what happens to Jack when he is gathering canes?

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