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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is exhaustion overtaking in Part 3?
(a) The correspondent and the oiler.
(b) The two rowers and the man doing the bailing.
(c) The cook and the captain.
(d) The two rowers and the captain.

2. What do the intruders finally do?
(a) Die.
(b) Knock the captain overboard.
(c) Join the four men on the boat.
(d) Leave the men alone.

3. What does the correspondent find in his pocket?
(a) A match.
(b) Food.
(c) Four dry cigars.
(d) A piece of paper.

4. What do the men learn quickly?
(a) That with each crashing wave, there is another one right on its wake.
(b) That they will never reach land.
(c) That they are near land.
(d) That they cannot construct a sail.

5. What do the men realize when the water changes from gray to emerald green?
(a) That the storm has arrived.
(b) That it is nighttime.
(c) That it must be daylight.
(d) That the storm has lifted.

6. Who takes two oars first?
(a) The cook.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The correspondent.

7. Whose nature is naturally more cynical than the others'?
(a) The captain.
(b) The cook.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The correspondent.

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

9. What do the men do to gain assistance from the wind in Part 3?
(a) Make a sail.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Hide under the boat.
(d) Row the oars.

10. What suggests the men have been on a noteworthy trip?
(a) The presence of the correspondent.
(b) Their nice clothes.
(c) The presence of the captain.
(d) Their eagerness to reach safety.

11. What does the oiler say near the end of Part 1?
(a) That they will soon be rescued.
(b) That it is too early to worry about either a life-saving station or a house of refuge.
(c) That he would rather be dead than continue this struggle.
(d) That he cannot row any longer.

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

13. Who tries to calm the other men?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The captain.

14. What happens as the men get closer to land?
(a) The waves capsize the boat.
(b) The wind picks up.
(c) The men rejoice.
(d) The men get further from land, not closer.

15. What is in better view towards the end of Part 3?
(a) The waves.
(b) The sun.
(c) Land.
(d) The lighthouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since the four men have slept?

2. What do the men use as a mast?

3. Where are the four men headed?

4. Why do the oiler and correspondent sit on the same seat?

5. What do the waves threaten to do?

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