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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea seems optimistic at best?
(a) Reaching land.
(b) Meeting their deadline.
(c) Surviving the storm.
(d) Finding dinner.

2. What determines the gravity of a situation?
(a) The danger.
(b) The age of the people involved.
(c) Nature.
(d) Perspective and view.

3. Who bails water from the boat?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The cook.

4. What does the captain do in Part 1?
(a) Keep up the direction and moral support.
(b) Construct a makeshift sail.
(c) Row the boat with both oars.
(d) Complain about his injuries.

5. What is temporarily buoyed by the sight of the lighthouse?
(a) The men's spirits.
(b) The boat.
(c) The wind.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the oiler say near the end of Part 1?

2. What do the men search the shoreline for?

3. What are the men facing in Part 2?

4. What does the correspondent take turns doing with the oiler in Part 2?

5. What does the captain use to get rid of their intruders?

(see the answer key)

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