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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Road of Trash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Callahan improvise with a length of tubing, a part of the blanket, and some twine?
(a) A funnel.
(b) A signalling device.
(c) A basket.
(d) A tent.

2. What does a fish bite into, causing water to drain back out to sea, according to the observations of Callahan?
(a) Distillation bag.
(b) The outer tube.
(c) The bottom of the boat.
(d) The inner tube.

3. What happens to the bottom of the older solar still, even with the many efforts of Callahan to fix it?
(a) It is broken off by a shark.
(b) It goes missing one day.
(c) It rots clean through.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Callahan come across as he is sailing around on April 6th on the ocean?
(a) A deserted island.
(b) A ship.
(c) A stretch of trash and pollution.
(d) A sand bar.

5. How many men are supposedly able to fit inside of the life raft Callahan now inhabits?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Callahan use in the hope that he might be found and rescued by its beacon?

2. When Callahan finds a strange mass in the ocean, he dines on the small __________ and shrimp which are located there.

3. What has become a frozen lump of rust, not very effective for signalling to passing ships?

4. Callahan realizes that his survival depends on his ability to make fresh _____________.

5. Callahan decides it is his __________ which allows him to survive in the boat and in the world.

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