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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 are the men dependent on while they are on the pack ice?
(a) The motion and direction of the ice
(b) The stars
(c) Their oars
(d) The height of the waves

2. The shortages of food mean that the men have trouble with what?
(a) Killing the dogs
(b) Traveling with the sledges
(c) Seeing visions
(d) Maintaining their body temperature

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

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

5. The men come to realize that what will determine their fate?
(a) Shackleton
(b) External elements
(c) Their own determination
(d) God

Short Answer Questions

1. What occurs in October 1915?

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

3. Orde-Lees is one day stalked and then pursued by what?

4. What is the temperature in June?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What leads the men to take to the boats?

3. What experience does Shackleton have as an explorer?

4. What do the men do after they realize that the Endurance is trapped in the ice?

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

6. What is the weather like while the Endurance is trapped in the ice?

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

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

9. Why do the men struggle with getting the sledges across the ice?

10. What is life like in the camps?

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