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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How much personal gear can each man take?
(a) Seven pounds
(b) Two pounds
(c) Ten pounds
(d) Fifteen pounds
2. How many boats do the men take with them on the sledges?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) One
(d) None
3. What is the third boat named, which is recovered from Ocean Camp?
(a) Stancomb Wills
(b) Dogfight Boat
(c) Dancing Sailor
(d) The Red Vessel
4. Who gives funds to Shackleton's expedition
(a) Teddy Roosevelt
(b) Edmund Hillary
(c) Dudley Docker
(d) Benjamin Franklin
5. For what are the dogs used?
(a) Hunting seals
(b) Sledding
(c) Chasing away bears
(d) Meat
Short Answer Questions
1. Shackleton is which of the following?
2. As the men attempt to move with the sledges, who refuses to go on until Shackleton intervenes?
3. After the end of February, at what task does the ship's crew work?
4. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?
5. What is in the stomach of the leopard seal that is shot?
Short Essay Questions
1. How many boats does the ship have? What do the men do to the boats?
2. How do the men deal with the food shortages?
3. Why do the men struggle with getting the sledges across the ice?
4. What does Shackleton decide to do in December? What leads to this decision?
5. What initial plan do the men make to put themselves in a better position?
6. What are the men like that Shackleton takes with him as the crew?
7. What is the weather like while the Endurance is trapped in the ice?
8. How do the men get the gigantic leopard seal?
9. What decision does Shackleton make that baffles the men? Why?
10. What concerns the men about their camp on the ice floe?
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