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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. By April, how large is Patience Camp?
(a) A mile in diameter
(b) 600 yards across
(c) Three miles across
(d) 200 yards across

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

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

4. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?
(a) Robert F. Scott
(b) Francis Drake
(c) Christopher Columbus
(d) Edmund Hillary

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many boats do the men take with them on the sledges?

2. Whose dog team is the last to be killed?

3. What word best describes the first camp?

4. After the end of February, at what task does the ship's crew work?

5. Why does Shackleton stop the men from retrieving the three seals that they kill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What decision does Shackleton make that baffles the men? Why?

5. What happens to the Patience Camp ice floe?

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

7. What experience does Shackleton have as an explorer?

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

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

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

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