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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. How much did the ox heart weigh that the narrator bought at Corrigans weigh?
(a) 4 lbs. 5 oz.
(b) 2 lbs. 13 oz.
(c) 3 lbs. 11 oz.
(d) 1 lb. 13 oz.

2. When did the expedition set off for Senegal?
(a) August 8, 1816.
(b) June 17, 1816.
(c) September 21, 1816.
(d) July 10, 1816.

3. What did the village elder give Amanda and Miss Logan before they climbed Mount Ararat?
(a) Shotgun and apples.
(b) Rice and lemons.
(c) Tea and pistol.
(d) Pistol and lemons.

4. Who wrote, "We must love one another or die"?
(a) Thomas Deloney.
(b) Arnold Bennett.
(c) E. M. Forster.
(d) W. H. Auden.

5. What is remembered about William Huskisson?
(a) That he was a poet.
(b) That he was a novelist.
(c) That he was a politican and a financier.
(d) That he was the first person run down and killed by a train.

Short Answer Questions

1. The subjects of what king found the vestiges of the raft that the frigate survivors constructed?

2. In Chapter 5, what Cape had the expedition rounded when they saw the porpoises?

3. What lifeboat did Lawrence escape in when he was on the Titanic?

4. How many passengers were allowed to disembark in Cuba?

5. How many passengers were on board the St. Louis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the eighteen-year-old expect when he takes a job as a prep-school master?

2. How would science explain the halo of cloud that appears around Mount Ararat?

3. What is the storyline based upon of the movie Charlie is acting in?

4. What did Amanda say about the practice of placing teeth in a crevice of the door of a church?

5. What does Charlie learn about the words one of the Indians has been teaching him?

6. Who finally agreed to take passengers from the St. Louis?

7. What happens on Thursday when the crew are filming?

8. In Section II of Chapter 5, how is catastrophe turned into art?

9. When a violent storm blew up while Jonah was traveling by ship, how did the mariners decide that Jonah was the cause of the storm?

10. What is different about the way the couple sleeps in "Parenthesis"?

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