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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose navigational skills does Shackleton have to trust in?
(a) Worsley
(b) Crean
(c) McNeish
(d) Vincent

2. Who stows away on the ship in order to become a crew member?
(a) Edmund Randolph
(b) Blackboro
(c) Francis Drake
(d) Hopper

3. Who leads Vincent and McCarthy on the second watch?
(a) Crean
(b) Shackleton
(c) McNeish
(d) Worsley

4. What are the men able to salvage?
(a) Sixteen chickens
(b) Rain buckets
(c) Three boats
(d) A cannon

5. What almost overturns the boats when they are first launched?
(a) A tide rip
(b) A whale
(c) A pressure ridge
(d) A leopard seal

Short Answer Questions

1. By April, what surrounds Patience Camp?

2. What is the most dreaded bit of ocean on the planet?

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

4. What do the men see when the fog lifts?

5. What does Shackleton insist must be abandoned?

(see the answer key)

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