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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which crew member doesn't fit in with the others?
(a) Vincent
(b) Edmund
(c) Andrew
(d) Phillip

2. What word best describes the pay for individuals on the voyage?
(a) Average
(b) Miserly
(c) Abundant
(d) Promising

3. Who builds a ten-foot high cofferdam in the aft?
(a) Edmund
(b) McNeish
(c) Vincent
(d) Blackboro

4. What occurs in October 1915?
(a) Shackleton dies
(b) The men free the ship
(c) The Endurance begins to take on water
(d) Shackleton finally reaches the pole

5. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Robert F. Scott
(c) Christopher Columbus
(d) Edmund Hillary

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the route supposed to start from in the first expedition of Shackleton's proposed trans-Antarctic expedition?

2. Shackleton is told that the Weddell Sea is full of what?

3. What is the main event in Chapter 1?

4. Shackleton is which of the following?

5. The Endurance gets to within 200 miles of Vahsel Bay by when?

(see the answer key)

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