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

3. Shackleton's second voyage got how close to the pole?
(a) 97 miles
(b) 56 miles
(c) 2 miles
(d) 500 miles

4. 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

5. How far are the men from Paulet Island?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 100 miles
(c) 500 miles
(d) 350 miles

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

7. What is ever present in the camps?
(a) Safety
(b) Warmth
(c) Excitement
(d) Boredom

8. Who works on the ship's three boats?
(a) Blackboro
(b) Daniels
(c) McNeish
(d) Shackleton

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

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

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

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

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

14. Which word best describes the progress across the pack ice?
(a) Safe
(b) Exciting
(c) Quick
(d) Difficult

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