View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. How do the men feel about the results gained from constructing the sail?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Angry.
(d) Pleased.

5. Where do the four men hope to find refuge?
(a) Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse.
(b) Italy.
(c) Bumblebee Cove.
(d) Ireland.

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

7. Why do the oiler and correspondent sit on the same seat?
(a) To talk.
(b) To row.
(c) To eat dinner.
(d) To sleep.

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

9. What does the sun transform the ocean into in Part 2?
(a) A warm bath.
(b) A friendly acquaintance.
(c) A spectacular light show.
(d) A nightmarish deathtrap.

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

11. Which man's life is not of the sea?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The cook.
(c) The captain.
(d) The oiler.

12. Who silently marks their adventure as the best experience that he has ever had?
(a) The captain.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The correspondent.

13. How does the object in Part 2 taunt the men?
(a) By making them hungry.
(b) By reminding them that the shore is far away.
(c) By reminding them of their impending deaths.
(d) The seaweed does not taunt the men.

14. Near the end of Part 3, how long do the men guess it will now take them to reach shore?
(a) A day.
(b) An hour.
(c) A week.
(d) Five minutes.

15. Why is it obvious that none of the other life boats have made it back to shore?
(a) Because no one is out searching for them.
(b) The oiler does not make this claims.
(c) Because they have not seen the other life boats.
(d) Because there are no other life boats.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose nature is naturally more cynical than the others'?

2. Why are the men forced into rowing again in Part 3?

3. What do the waves threaten to do?

4. Who advises the others not to overdo it?

5. Why are these four men on the tiny boat?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 482 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample