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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. After the end of February, at what task does the ship's crew work?
(a) Gathering firewood
(b) Trying to free the ship from the ice
(c) Burying the dead
(d) Reinforcing the ship's walls

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

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

7. How much personal gear can each man take?
(a) Ten pounds
(b) Fifteen pounds
(c) Seven pounds
(d) Two pounds

8. Which boat is left behind when the men try sledging?
(a) James Caird
(b) Dudley Docker
(c) John Wesley
(d) Stancomb Wills

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

10. Who builds a ten-foot high cofferdam in the aft?
(a) Edmund
(b) Vincent
(c) McNeish
(d) Blackboro

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

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

13. Whose dog team is the last to be killed?
(a) Schwan
(b) Macklin
(c) Blackboro
(d) Leeds

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens toward the end of November?

2. When does Shackleton decide to try the sledges again?

3. What do Shackleton and the crew realize about the ice?

4. Toward the end of March, what land is sighted?

5. How many pounds of meat does the leopard seal provide?

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