3. The men come to realize that what will determine their fate?
(a) God
(b) External elements
(c) Their own determination
(d) Shackleton

4. What do the men name the camp they create after trying the sledges for the first time?
(a) Endurance Camp
(b) Ocean Camp
(c) Death Camp
(d) Misery Camp

5. By April, what surrounds Patience Camp?
(a) Islets of land
(b) Leads of open water
(c) Leopard seals
(d) Pressure ridges

6. Who gives funds to Shackleton's expedition
(a) Dudley Docker
(b) Edmund Hillary
(c) Teddy Roosevelt
(d) Benjamin Franklin

7. Mortgaging the expedition means what?
(a) Putting up the ship and supplies as collatoral
(b) Selling in advance the rights to whatever commercial exploitation the expedition might produce
(c) Putting the expedition into debt by buying supplies
(d) Agreeing to pay back the amount loaned or the ship could be repossessed

8. What does the crew do during the months they are trapped?
(a) Work on routine tasks
(b) Hold dances
(c) Carve wooden swords
(d) Swim in the ocean

9. What word best describes the first camp?
(a) Exciting
(b) Miserable
(c) Warm
(d) Old

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

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

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

14. What happens toward the end of November?
(a) Shackleton dies
(b) The crew stages a mutiny
(c) The dogs die
(d) The Endurance sinks

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