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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what are the dogs used?
(a) Meat
(b) Chasing away bears
(c) Hunting seals
(d) Sledding

2. Which boat is left behind when the men try sledging?
(a) Stancomb Wills
(b) James Caird
(c) Dudley Docker
(d) John Wesley

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

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

5. What happens toward the end of November?
(a) The dogs die
(b) Shackleton dies
(c) The crew stages a mutiny
(d) The Endurance sinks

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the crew do during the months they are trapped?

2. The crew forms social organizations based on what?

3. Who advises Shackleton at South Georgia Island?

4. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?

5. How old is Shackleton at the start of the third voyage?

(see the answer key)

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