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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which word best describes the progress across the pack ice?
(a) Safe
(b) Quick
(c) Difficult
(d) Exciting

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

3. What do the men find that occupies their time?
(a) A barrel of whiskey
(b) A deck of cards
(c) A magazine
(d) A record player

4. Shackleton is told that the Weddell Sea is full of what?
(a) Bears
(b) Seals
(c) Ice
(d) Whales

5. Where did the men camp after abandoning the ship?
(a) A pressure ridge
(b) In a stand of trees nearby
(c) An ice floe
(d) A shack about two miles away

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

7. Why does Shackleton move the food stores near his tent?
(a) To get first choice
(b) To prevent theft
(c) To assert his leadership
(d) To protect it from bears

8. How many pounds of meat does the leopard seal provide?
(a) 500 pounds
(b) 1000 pounds
(c) 100 pounds
(d) 5000 pounds

9. What confines the men to their tents for days at a time?
(a) Bad weather
(b) Melting ice
(c) Pressure ridges
(d) Illness

10. By April, how large is Patience Camp?
(a) 200 yards across
(b) 600 yards across
(c) Three miles across
(d) A mile in diameter

11. What exception does Shackleton make to the two-pound personal gear rule?
(a) A saxaphone
(b) A banjo
(c) A drum
(d) A piano

12. What happens on April 9?
(a) The Patience Camp ice floe lands on Paulet Island
(b) The Patience Camp ice floe cracks and the men launch the boats
(c) The last of the dogs is eaten and the first man dies of starvation
(d) The men mutiny and kill Shackleton

13. What is the second camp called?
(a) Waiting Camp
(b) Eternity Camp
(c) Frozen Ice Camp
(d) Mark Time Camp

14. Why did individuals want to be a part of Shackleton's expedition?
(a) Good wages
(b) To escape prison
(c) Possible treasure
(d) Potential adventure and renown

15. What quality best describes the men that Shackleton choose for his expedition?
(a) Reliable
(b) Erratic
(c) Cautious
(d) Infirm

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's first voyage is under whose leadership?

3. Why does Shackleton stop the men from retrieving the three seals that they kill?

4. What resumes as the light returns?

5. What begins to build up around the Endurance that worries the men?

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