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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many boats do the men take with them on the sledges?
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) Two
(d) None
2. What are the men dependent on while they are on the pack ice?
(a) Their oars
(b) The stars
(c) The height of the waves
(d) The motion and direction of the ice
3. Before Shackleton renamed her Endurance, what was his ship known as?
(a) Polaris
(b) Santa Maria
(c) Argonaut
(d) Belfast
4. What word best describes the pay for individuals on the voyage?
(a) Promising
(b) Miserly
(c) Average
(d) Abundant
5. What is the seal blubber used for?
(a) Bait
(b) Candles
(c) Cooking
(d) Tent floors
6. What does the crew do during the months they are trapped?
(a) Work on routine tasks
(b) Carve wooden swords
(c) Swim in the ocean
(d) Hold dances
7. Which crew member doesn't fit in with the others?
(a) Phillip
(b) Andrew
(c) Edmund
(d) Vincent
8. What are the men able to salvage?
(a) A cannon
(b) Sixteen chickens
(c) Three boats
(d) Rain buckets
9. What is the second camp called?
(a) Eternity Camp
(b) Frozen Ice Camp
(c) Mark Time Camp
(d) Waiting Camp
10. What occurs in October 1915?
(a) The Endurance begins to take on water
(b) Shackleton dies
(c) The men free the ship
(d) Shackleton finally reaches the pole
11. Clarence Island is how many miles north of Patience Camp
(a) 100
(b) 5
(c) 68
(d) 234
12. After the end of February, at what task does the ship's crew work?
(a) Burying the dead
(b) Trying to free the ship from the ice
(c) Gathering firewood
(d) Reinforcing the ship's walls
13. For what are the dogs used?
(a) Sledding
(b) Chasing away bears
(c) Hunting seals
(d) Meat
14. As the men attempt to move with the sledges, who refuses to go on until Shackleton intervenes?
(a) Vincent
(b) Dudley
(c) McNeish
(d) Blackboro
15. The crew forms social organizations based on what?
(a) Age
(b) Tent groups
(c) Positions in the crew
(d) Seniority
Short Answer Questions
1. How many pounds of meat does the leopard seal provide?
2. Where was the route supposed to start from in the first expedition of Shackleton's proposed trans-Antarctic expedition?
3. Who works on the ship's three boats?
4. What is in the stomach of the leopard seal that is shot?
5. Which word best describes the progress across the pack ice?
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