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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What game do the men play in camp?
(a) Euchre
(b) Uno
(c) Golf
(d) Bridge

3. Toward the end of March, what land is sighted?
(a) Paulet Island
(b) Weddell Island
(c) Patience Islets
(d) Danger Islets

4. Where does Shackleton head for final provisioning?
(a) Cape Town
(b) Boston
(c) San Francisco
(d) Buenos Aires

5. Which crew member doesn't fit in with the others?
(a) Phillip
(b) Andrew
(c) Edmund
(d) Vincent

6. What was the name of Shackleton's sailing vessel?
(a) Nina
(b) Dover
(c) Corriene
(d) Endurance

7. How far did the men go with the sledges, of the 200 that they needed to do?
(a) Twenty-five miles
(b) One mile
(c) Nine miles
(d) One hundred miles

8. What is the seal blubber used for?
(a) Candles
(b) Cooking
(c) Bait
(d) Tent floors

9. What personal items are salvaged after the first sledging attempt?
(a) Photographic equipment
(b) Paintings
(c) Boots
(d) Carved masks

10. 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

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

12. As the men attempt to move with the sledges, who refuses to go on until Shackleton intervenes?
(a) Vincent
(b) Dudley
(c) Blackboro
(d) McNeish

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

14. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Christopher Columbus
(c) Robert F. Scott
(d) Edmund Hillary

15. For what are the dogs used?
(a) Chasing away bears
(b) Sledding
(c) Hunting seals
(d) Meat

Short Answer Questions

1. Shackleton is which of the following?

2. What camp is located almost back to Ocean Camp?

3. Why did individuals want to be a part of Shackleton's expedition?

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

5. What is in the stomach of the leopard seal that is shot?

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