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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 able to salvage?
(a) A cannon
(b) Three boats
(c) Rain buckets
(d) Sixteen chickens

2. What is the third boat named, which is recovered from Ocean Camp?
(a) Dancing Sailor
(b) The Red Vessel
(c) Dogfight Boat
(d) Stancomb Wills

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

4. Whose dog team is the last to be killed?
(a) Schwan
(b) Leeds
(c) Macklin
(d) Blackboro

5. How much meat does the crew collect by the end of April?
(a) One ton
(b) Five tons
(c) None
(d) Two and a half tons

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What causes clashes in the camp?

3. What confines the men to their tents for days at a time?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Blackboro join the expedition?

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

6. What experience does Shackleton have as an explorer?

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

8. The men begin to notice that the ice is affecting the Endurance. What is occurring and how is the Endurance affected?

9. What happens to the Patience Camp ice floe?

10. How does Shackleton pay for his expedition?

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