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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who loses concept of time?
(a) The cook.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The four men.

2. What do the men search the shoreline for?
(a) A hotel.
(b) Their families, awaiting their return.
(c) A restaurant.
(d) A life-saving station or a house of refuge.

3. What do the waves threaten to do?
(a) Calm down.
(b) Drown the boat.
(c) Beat the boat into the rocks.
(d) Sweep the men out to sea.

4. Who commands the tiny boat?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The cook.
(d) The captain.

5. Who is the crew on the tiny boat?
(a) Three lifelong friends.
(b) Three close brothers.
(c) Three unlikely shipmates.
(d) Three bitter enemies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who silently marks their adventure as the best experience that he has ever had?

2. Who is exhaustion overtaking in Part 3?

3. Who disagrees with the correspondent near the end of Part 1?

4. What would make the men see their situation as glorious?

5. How does the object in Part 2 taunt the men?

(see the answer key)

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