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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) Whether to stay on the ice floe or not
(c) The various personalities
(d) The progress the men make with the sledges

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

3. Shackleton is which of the following?
(a) A polar explorer
(b) A doctor
(c) A whaler
(d) A ship builder

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

5. What do the men discover about the new camp?
(a) It is not big enough for the sledges
(b) There are many seals in the area
(c) The ice is strong and permanent
(d) The ice floe is unstable

6. When does Shackleton decide to try the sledges again?
(a) June
(b) March
(c) August
(d) December

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

8. Before Shackleton renamed her Endurance, what was his ship known as?
(a) Polaris
(b) Belfast
(c) Santa Maria
(d) Argonaut

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

10. Where is a known cache of food and supplies?
(a) North Georgia Island
(b) Danger Island
(c) Paulet Island
(d) Francis Bay

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

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

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

14. How many boats do the men take with them on the sledges?
(a) Three
(b) None
(c) Two
(d) One

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives funds to Shackleton's expedition

2. What quality best describes the men that Shackleton choose for his expedition?

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

4. How far are the men from Paulet Island?

5. Who shoots the first dog team to be killed?

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