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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cook doing in Part 5?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Rowing.
(c) Eating.
(d) Crying.

2. In Part 4, what are the men unaware of?
(a) They are being mocked by nature.
(b) That there is no life-saving station anywhere near where they are.
(c) No one can see them.
(d) The ship has a hole in it.

3. What does the correspondent keep an eye on in Part 6?
(a) The shark.
(b) The man on shore.
(c) The watch fire on the beach.
(d) The seagulls.

4. What would the correspondent give almost anything for near the end of Part 5?
(a) For the shark to go away.
(b) For a bite of food.
(c) For his friends to drown.
(d) For a good night's sleep.

5. What do the men wonder about as they head out toward deeper water in Part 4?
(a) Why no one has tried to find them.
(b) They do not head out toward deeper water.
(c) Why Nature is so cruel.
(d) Why the captain insists upon going out to deeper water.

6. What can the men do about the shark?
(a) Laugh at it.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Be its dinner.
(d) Kill it.

7. What is the oiler doing in Part 5?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Crying.
(c) Rowing.
(d) Eating.

8. In regards to the shark, what does the correspondent think he would not do in different circumstances?
(a) Love the shark.
(b) Fear the shark.
(c) Be jealous of the shark
(d) Curse the sea.

9. What did the recalled story mean to the reader at the time he read it?
(a) As heart-wrenching in its sadness and futility.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It reminded him of someone he knew.
(d) He thought it was funny.

10. Whose point of view is Part 5 of "The Open Boat" told from?
(a) The captain's.
(b) The correspondent's.
(c) The cook's.
(d) The oiler's.

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

12. What do the men do since they are unable to reach shore safely in Part 4?
(a) Head toward another island.
(b) Head toward shore.
(c) Head out to deeper water.
(d) Accept their deaths.

13. Who stops the correspondent's watch of the object in Part 6?
(a) The cook.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The captain.

14. Who is the only person awake in Part 5?
(a) The captain.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The cook.

15. Who died in the story recalled in Part 6?
(a) A correspondent.
(b) A mother.
(c) A priest.
(d) A Legionnaire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men see on shore at the beginning of Part 4?

2. What hope appears in Part 5?

3. Who replaces the correspondent on the rowing seat in Part 6?

4. What is the captain doing in Part 5?

5. What does the man onshore do?

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