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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the progress across the pack ice?
(a) Exciting
(b) Difficult
(c) Safe
(d) Quick

2. What do Shackleton and the crew realize about the ice?
(a) It will go away the following spring
(b) The Endurance can break through all but the thickest ice
(c) They'll have to walk across it to the pole
(d) It is more or less permanent

3. What is the temperature in June?
(a) 0 degrees Fahrenheit
(b) 45 degrees Fahrenheit
(c) -17 degrees Fahrenheit
(d) 32 degrees Fahrenheit

4. What does Shackleton insist must be abandoned?
(a) The heavy cooking items
(b) Nonessential items
(c) The dogs
(d) The three boats

5. The Endurance is designed to sail with what?
(a) Strong winds
(b) Sleet
(c) Fog
(d) Ice

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the men able to salvage?

2. Shackleton's second voyage earns him what?

3. How much personal gear can each man take?

4. What does Shackleton acknowledge as the men try to make it across the pack ice?

5. What is the main event in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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