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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship that rescues Susan and the others?
(a) The Redemption.
(b) The Sumner P.
(c) The Hobart.
(d) The Clayton.

2. Why does Cruso tell Susan he has not tried to record his memories?
(a) He doesn't think anyone will ever read it.
(b) He cannot write.
(c) Forgetting is the greatest blessing of the island.
(d) He hasn't forgetten anything worth remembering.

3. How does Susan say that Cruso came to be stranded, in Part One?
(a) She doesn't know.
(b) He and Friday are the only survivors of a slave ship.
(c) HIs family drowned at sea and he survived.
(d) He was a captain whose crew mutinied and left him stranded..

4. Where does Susan see Friday working when she awakens her first morning on the island?
(a) Up high in a tree.
(b) In the water by the shore.
(c) In a crop field.
(d) At a stone stove.

5. Why does the woman in the beginning of the story say she slips over the side of the boat and swims to shore?
(a) She cannot row any further.
(b) To escape the other occupant of the boat.
(c) To get to a person on shore.
(d) The boat is leaking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What best describes the diet of Cruso and Friday in Part One?

2. How does Cruso react to the arrival of a ship on the island?

3. How does Cruso refer to the ailment he gets shortly after Susan's arrival?

4. Why does Cruso say he never tried to build a boat?

5. Why doesn't Friday speak to Susan?

(see the answer key)

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