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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who advises the others not to overdo it?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The cook.
(c) The captain.
(d) The oiler.

2. What do the men wonder about as they head toward shore in Part 4 ?
(a) Whether they will see their families again.
(b) Why he has come so close to shore if he is going to be drowned.
(c) Who will win the bet about the exact hour that they will reach shore.
(d) Why they cannot swim like the fish.

3. Who orders the sail made again in Part 6?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The captain.

4. Whose point of view is the entirety of "The Open Boat" told from?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) It alternates between the characters.

5. What are the men facing in Part 2?
(a) Being rescued.
(b) Each other.
(c) Starvation.
(d) A wall of water rushing at them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the waves threaten to do?

2. How does the correspondent show great character in Part 5?

3. What do the men realize when the water changes from gray to emerald green?

4. Who do the men think would be cruel to allow them to die?

5. What did the recalled story mean to the reader at the time he read it?

(see the answer key)

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