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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the men see on shore at the beginning of Part 4?
(a) A tiny house.
(b) Their families.
(c) A man on the shore.
(d) A lighthouse.

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

4. 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.

5. In Part 4, what are the men unable to believe?
(a) That the sea will take them when they have come so close to shore.
(b) That they will survive this adventure.
(c) That their boat has not sunk yet.
(d) That they will remain friends with one another.

6. What does the correspondent watch for in Part 5?
(a) The men on shore to signal them in.
(b) The lighthouse to shine a light on them.
(c) The blue glint of the shark's fin.
(d) The seagulls to return.

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

8. Why is the makeshift sail made again in Part 6?
(a) So that the oiler and the captain can sleep at the same time.
(b) Because the men are bored and need something to do.
(c) The makeshift sail is not made again.
(d) So that the oiler and the correspondent can sleep at the same time.

9. Since the four men on the boat have now been seen, what do think they think will surely happen very soon?
(a) They will have to swim to shore.
(b) Someone will swim out to sea to rescue them.
(c) They will die.
(d) Someone will come with a lifeboat.

10. What does the man onshore do?
(a) Shake his head and walk away.
(b) Wave frantically.
(c) Point and laugh.
(d) Dive into the ocean to help the men.

11. Why do the men have to take the boat back out to sea in Part 4?
(a) They forgot one of the men at sea.
(b) They are suddenly deluged again.
(c) They realize they are at the wrong island.
(d) They do not take the boat back out to sea.

12. What hope appears in Part 5?
(a) A lifesaving boat.
(b) The winds quiet.
(c) None.
(d) The lighthouse.

13. Who orders the sail made again in Part 6?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The captain.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The cook.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ordered to make the sail again in Part 6?

2. In Part 5, who does the correspondent wish would wake up?

3. What don't the men share with each other in Part 6?

4. Where did the character in the recalled story die?

5. Who hears the sound of the shark's powerful fin?

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