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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the crew realize as they make their way with the sledges?
(a) They will need to leave the dogs behind
(b) Substantive movement by sledge is simply impossible
(c) The ice floe they are on is shrinking
(d) They are only five miles from Paulet Island

3. Where does Shackleton sail after Buenos Aires?
(a) Cape Town
(b) Cuba
(c) Halifax
(d) South Georgia Island

4. How many men go with Shackleton on the escape attempt?
(a) 7
(b) 11
(c) 5
(d) 3

5. How far does the boat travel in the first six days?
(a) 104 miles
(b) 547 miles
(c) 60 miles
(d) 238 miles

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ever present in the camps?

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

3. How many boats do the men take with them on the sledges?

4. When do Shackleton and the men depart in the boat to try to reach civilization?

5. In the boats, the men suffer from what?

(see the answer key)

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