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

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

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

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

5. What occurs in October 1915?
(a) Shackleton dies
(b) The Endurance begins to take on water
(c) The men free the ship
(d) Shackleton finally reaches the pole

Short Answer Questions

1. What begins to build up around the Endurance that worries the men?

2. What are the men able to salvage?

3. As the men attempt to move with the sledges, who refuses to go on until Shackleton intervenes?

4. The men come to realize that what will determine their fate?

5. Before Shackleton renamed her Endurance, what was his ship known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is life like in the camps?

2. How do the men get the gigantic leopard seal?

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

4. What experience does Shackleton have as an explorer?

5. How is the Endurance designed for a polar expedition?

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

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

8. What do the men salvage off the Endurance?

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

10. What happens to the Patience Camp ice floe?

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