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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What resumes as the light returns?
(a) Thickening ice
(b) Seal hunting
(c) Chicken roasts
(d) Dances

3. What does Shackleton acknowledge as the men try to make it across the pack ice?
(a) They have to abondon most of their food to lighten the sledge
(b) Progress by sledge is all but impossible
(c) He is dying of hypothermia
(d) They need to use the dog sleds

4. What causes clashes in the camp?
(a) The lack of food
(b) The various personalities
(c) Whether to stay on the ice floe or not
(d) The progress the men make with the sledges

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens toward the end of November?

2. What is the main event in Chapter 1?

3. How much personal gear can each man take?

4. Mortgaging the expedition means what?

5. The Endurance is designed to sail with what?

(see the answer key)

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