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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the meal that Susan enjoys after the ship first arrives on the island?
(a) An apple, cheese and wine.
(b) Cheese and fruit.
(c) Biscuits, cheese and ale.
(d) Pork, biscuits and wine.

3. Who steps on a thorn in the first section of the story?
(a) Susan.
(b) The unnamed boy.
(c) Friday.
(d) Abigail.

4. What does Susan say Cruso would have done if he had been a true adventurer?
(a) Found a way off the island, if only by death.
(b) Experimented with cannibalism.
(c) Returned to civilization alive.
(d) Planted a seed in the only fertile womb on the island.

5. What does Susan compare Friday to when she decides not to send him on the ship?
(a) An unloved child.
(b) Herself, as a child.
(c) A clinging vine.
(d) A stray dog.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mr. Foe say it is a shame that Cruso didn't save from the wreck?

3. What does Susan say that eating human flesh is bound to be like?

4. Who tells Susan that he or she has been following her?

5. Where do Susan and Friday move to at the end of May in Part Two?

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