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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes Cruso's shelter when Susan first sees it?
(a) A shelter of poles and thatched reeds.
(b) A cave transformed by fire and animal pelts.
(c) An impressive shed made of timber, knots and vines.
(d) A shanty of sail cloth, vines and leaves.

2. Who cares for the person (or persons) who falls after Susan has been on the island for one year?
(a) Cruso.
(b) Friday.
(c) No one, the person is left alone.
(d) Susan.

3. How does Susan describe the food on the island?
(a) Bland, plant based, and grisly.
(b) Scarce and very monotonous.
(c) Readily available and luscious.
(d) Strange and exotic.

4. Who was in the rowboat with Susan?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) A slave.
(d) The captain.

5. What best describes the person who first meets the woman who swims ashore in the beginning of the story?
(a) A black man.
(b) A woman wearing a bonnet.
(c) A boy with a shaved head.
(d) A white man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Susan see Friday working when she awakens her first morning on the island?

2. Why do Friday's feet bleed in Part One?

3. How does Cruso respond to leaving on the ship?

4. Why does Susan crawl into bed with Cruso when he is ill?

5. Where was Susan traveling when her boat ran into trouble?

(see the answer key)

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