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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the equivalent of the amount of food that each man is given in order to ration it for the trip?
(a) Six slices of cheese.
(b) Eight slices of bread.
(c) Six slices of bread.
(d) Eight slices of cheese.

2. What does Chase do as Nickerson and Lawrence prepare to bury Cole?
(a) He stops them.
(b) He helps them.
(c) He refuses to watch.
(d) He instructs them.

3. In what year does the story take place in?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1801.
(c) 1810.
(d) 1821.

4. When did ships from Nantucket first start rounding Cape Horn?
(a) 1719.
(b) 1781.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1718.

5. How many miles west of the Galapagos is the Essex on November 2, 1820?
(a) Over two thousand.
(b) Five hundred.
(c) Over a thousand.
(d) Less than five hundred.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Joy spend on the captain's boat before returning to his own boat and dying?

2. Which one of the Galapagos Islands is the crew of the Essex on when they discover a leak in the ship?

3. What does Pollard do the night before leaving the island in Chapter 9?

4. What does Chase encounter at the end of Chapter 10?

5. Which provisions does the crew of the Essex plan to purchase at the Azores?

(see the answer key)

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