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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens when night comes at the end of Part 4?
(a) The boat capsizes.
(b) A wave carries the four men further out to sea and, ultimately, their doom.
(c) The man on shore gives up on the four men stuck at sea.
(d) Everyone sleeps except the unfortunate one with the oars.

3. Where are these four men returning from?
(a) It is not explained.
(b) Italy.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Cuba.

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

5. Who hears the sound of the shark's powerful fin?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The cook.
(d) The captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the only person awake in Part 5?

2. What is the oiler doing at the beginning of the novel?

3. Why do the four men become the most loyal of friends?

4. Who bails water from the boat?

5. In Part 5, why is the correspondent the only one who is scared by the shark?

(see the answer key)

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