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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About 250 miles from South Georgia Island, a rogue wave breaks what?
(a) The water jug
(b) Vincent's arm
(c) The compass
(d) The rudder

2. How much meat does the crew collect by the end of April?
(a) Two and a half tons
(b) None
(c) One ton
(d) Five tons

3. Shackleton's second voyage got how close to the pole?
(a) 97 miles
(b) 2 miles
(c) 56 miles
(d) 500 miles

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who works on the ship's three boats?

2. Shackleton and his men suffer from what?

3. What does McNeish do to the three boats?

4. When the men try to reach land the first time, how high are the breakers in the surf tide?

5. What occurs in October 1915?

(see the answer key)

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