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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personal items are salvaged after the first sledging attempt?
(a) Paintings
(b) Carved masks
(c) Photographic equipment
(d) Boots

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Orde-Lees is one day stalked and then pursued by what?
(a) Leopard Seal
(b) Polar Bear
(c) Penguin
(d) Walrus

9. Why is one of the dog teams killed?
(a) For the men to eat
(b) To conserve food
(c) To stop dog aggression
(d) They are ill

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

11. Why does Shackleton stop the men from retrieving the three seals that they kill?
(a) He wants to get them himself
(b) He doesn't want them eating seal meat
(c) The ice is too dangerous where the seals are
(d) A polar bear is not far away

12. Where is a known cache of food and supplies?
(a) Paulet Island
(b) Francis Bay
(c) North Georgia Island
(d) Danger Island

13. How many pounds of meat does the leopard seal provide?
(a) 500 pounds
(b) 5000 pounds
(c) 1000 pounds
(d) 100 pounds

14. The crew forms social organizations based on what?
(a) Seniority
(b) Age
(c) Positions in the crew
(d) Tent groups

15. The Endurance gets to within 200 miles of Vahsel Bay by when?
(a) June 1
(b) March 30
(c) Mid-January
(d) Mid-August

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the men camp after abandoning the ship?

2. What do the men find that occupies their time?

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

4. What game do the men play in camp?

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

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