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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Witch and Her Curse: Hunger and Thirst.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Callahan considers ___________ but decides instead to get started on his journey across the water.
(a) Going home.
(b) Taking on a passenger.
(c) Mooring for a while.
(d) Stocking up.

2. What does Callahan use in the hope that he might be found and rescued by its beacon?
(a) A flare gun.
(b) An SOS flag.
(c) A bright sail.
(d) EPRIB.

3. What is the Dougal Robertson book about, the book which Callahan did bring with him?
(a) A family who misses their sailing relative.
(b) Sea survival.
(c) Science fiction.
(d) Adventurers.

4. What does Callahan struggle to release as soon as he finds himself in water waist deep?
(a) The EPIRB.
(b) His flares.
(c) His life raft.
(d) A box of supplies.

5. Callahan realizes it will take him about ________ days to reach the shipping lanes in the ocean.
(a) 22.
(b) 14.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the race that Callahan wants to enter in order to find out whether he is fit for a trans-Atlantic trip?

2. How high are the waves that Callahan faces when he decides that he wants to squeak past the Finisterre?

3. What does Callahan call 'dangerously capricious' when he is writing down his thoughts in his journal?

4. Callahan is plagued by ________ and loss at all of the items he was not able to bring with him on the raft.

5. The racers and the supporters of the racers argue the wisdom of sailing against ______________.

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