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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Endurance gets to within 200 miles of Vahsel Bay by when?
(a) Mid-January
(b) Mid-August
(c) June 1
(d) March 30

5. Why does Shackleton stop the men from retrieving the three seals that they kill?
(a) The ice is too dangerous where the seals are
(b) He wants to get them himself
(c) A polar bear is not far away
(d) He doesn't want them eating seal meat

Short Answer Questions

1. Shackleton's second voyage got how close to the pole?

2. By April, what surrounds Patience Camp?

3. For what are the dogs used?

4. What do the men do the first few days after abandoning ship?

5. What is the temperature in June?

(see the answer key)

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