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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What aims at the captain's head?
(a) Wind.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Waves.

3. Who rows with the correspondent?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The cook.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The captain.

4. Who first spots a lighthouse?
(a) The captain.
(b) The cook.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The correspondent.

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

6. What do the men construct in Part 3 that yields immediate results?
(a) The sail.
(b) Fishing for dinner.
(c) Yelling for help.
(d) Complaining about their circumstances.

7. What curls over the men?
(a) Mountain-sized waves.
(b) The rough wind.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A warm blanket.

8. Why do the four men become the most loyal of friends?
(a) They have always been loyal friends.
(b) They do not.
(c) They are very alike.
(d) Their current circumstances.

9. What makes the men feel the way they do about their current situation in Part 2?
(a) Being where they are.
(b) The small size of their boat.
(c) The storm.
(d) The waves.

10. 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.

11. Where is the lighthouse?
(a) At Mosquito Inlet.
(b) At Bumblee Cove.
(c) In Ireland.
(d) In Italy.

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

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

14. Who is forced into rowing again in Part 3?
(a) The correspondent and the oiler.
(b) The correspondent and the captain.
(c) The cook and the captain.
(d) The oiler and the captain.

15. What do the waves seem determined to do?
(a) Escort the men to safety on land.
(b) Drown the dingy.
(c) Sweep the captain out of the boat and into the sea.
(d) The waves do not seem determined.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men use as a mast?

2. What do the men learn quickly?

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

4. Why is it obvious that none of the other life boats have made it back to shore?

5. What do the waves threaten to do?

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