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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. What is the seal blubber used for?
(a) Cooking
(b) Bait
(c) Candles
(d) Tent floors

2. Shackleton is which of the following?
(a) A doctor
(b) A polar explorer
(c) A whaler
(d) A ship builder

3. What does Shackleton acknowledge as the men try to make it across the pack ice?
(a) They need to use the dog sleds
(b) He is dying of hypothermia
(c) Progress by sledge is all but impossible
(d) They have to abondon most of their food to lighten the sledge

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Shackleton at the start of the third voyage?

2. Toward the end of March, what land is sighted?

3. How far away is Paulet Island from the Endurance?

4. What do Shackleton and the crew realize about the ice?

5. What is the main event in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How many boats does the ship have? What do the men do to the boats?

2. In preparation for the attempted trek to Paulet Island, how do the men prepare?

3. What is the experience like for the men as they trek with the sledges?

4. What does Shackleton decide to do in December? What leads to this decision?

5. What do the men do after they abandon the Endurance?

6. What do the men do to pass the time on the ice floe?

7. How does Blackboro join the expedition?

8. How do the men deal with the food shortages?

9. What initial plan do the men make to put themselves in a better position?

10. What pieces of land do the men get relatively close to on the ice floe?

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