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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who advises Shackleton at South Georgia Island?
(a) Dog sledders
(b) Inuits
(c) Hunters
(d) Whalers

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

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

5. What does Shackleton insist must be abandoned?
(a) The three boats
(b) The dogs
(c) Nonessential items
(d) The heavy cooking items

6. What begins to build up around the Endurance that worries the men?
(a) Seal bones
(b) Graves
(c) Snow banks
(d) Pressure ridges

7. What causes clashes in the camp?
(a) The progress the men make with the sledges
(b) The lack of food
(c) The various personalities
(d) Whether to stay on the ice floe or not

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

9. Rations consist of what meat?
(a) Reindeer
(b) Penguin
(c) Moose
(d) Bear

10. What is the main event in Chapter 1?
(a) The crushing of the Endurance by the ice pack
(b) The sinking of the Endurance by a hurricane
(c) The final push to the pole
(d) The death of Shackleton and the crew

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

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

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

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

15. What resumes as the light returns?
(a) Chicken roasts
(b) Dances
(c) Thickening ice
(d) Seal hunting

Short Answer Questions

1. What personal items are salvaged after the first sledging attempt?

2. Who builds a ten-foot high cofferdam in the aft?

3. Shackleton is which of the following?

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

5. What occurs in October 1915?

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