4. What occurs in October 1915?
(a) The Endurance begins to take on water
(b) Shackleton dies
(c) Shackleton finally reaches the pole
(d) The men free the ship

5. Where was the route supposed to start from in the first expedition of Shackleton's proposed trans-Antarctic expedition?
(a) Prudhoe Bay
(b) Lake Superior
(c) Vahsel Bay
(d) Bay of Fundy

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

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

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

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

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

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

12. The shortages of food mean that the men have trouble with what?
(a) Traveling with the sledges
(b) Maintaining their body temperature
(c) Killing the dogs
(d) Seeing visions

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

14. 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 wants to get them himself
(d) He doesn't want them eating seal meat

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