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

2. How does the woman who swims ashore feel when she is with the person who first greets her?
(a) Uncomfortable and unsafe.
(b) Safe and protected.
(c) At home.
(d) That she must get better to protect the person.

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

4. How does Susan respond to Friday's actions when she first sees him paddle out onto the bay?
(a) She is excited at the possibility of escape.
(b) She is angry that he has not provided more food.
(c) She realizes he has a soul or spirit.
(d) She feels a tendernes akin to love.

5. What does Susan say was her father's name?
(a) Sumner.
(b) Robert.
(c) Berton.
(d) Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a ship arrives on the island?

2. Where do Cruso and Friday sleep, when Susan first meets them?

3. What name does Cruso give to his shelter?

4. What, according to Cruso, is true of Friday?

5. Why does Susan say that Cruso wants to remain on the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Susan's first impression of the island?

2. How does Susan feel about Friday when they first meet?

3. How does Susan come to see Friday as a being with a soul?

4. How does Friday feel about leaving the island?

5. Why is Friday's communication with Susan limited?

6. What is Friday's role on the island?

7. How does Susan and Cruso's relationship change once they are rescued?

8. Describe the events that lead in the main characters' escape from the island.

9. Why do Cruso and Friday work on the terraces?

10. Describe Cruso's health.

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