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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provides the only sound in Part 5?
(a) The water.
(b) The wind.
(c) The men snoring.
(d) The people on shore.

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

3. How does the reader now view the recalled story in Part 6?
(a) As heart-wrenching in its sadness and futility.
(b) He thinks it is funny.
(c) It reminds him of someone he knew.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

6. Who falls asleep in the soggy boat in Part 6?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The oiler.

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

8. Where did the character in the recalled story die?
(a) Mosquito Inlet.
(b) America.
(c) Italy.
(d) Algiers.

9. What do the men do in Part 5?
(a) Die by drowning.
(b) Spend one of the longest nights of their lives.
(c) Sleep peacefully.
(d) Try to swim to shore.

10. What do the men think that anyone who has seen them from onshore may believe?
(a) That they are already dead.
(b) That they are simply out for sport.
(c) That they are an illusion.
(d) That saving them is hopeless.

11. 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) Why Nature is so cruel.
(c) Why the captain insists upon going out to deeper water.
(d) They do not head out toward deeper water.

12. Who wishes for different company near the end of Part 5?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The captain.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The cook.

13. Who is the four men's only company in Part 5?
(a) The wind.
(b) The waves.
(c) The man from shore.
(d) A shark.

14. Who replaces the correspondent on the rowing seat in Part 6?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain.
(c) No one.
(d) The oiler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men see soon after the man onshore returns from the house?

2. What is the oiler doing in Part 5?

3. Who died in the story recalled in Part 6?

4. Who recalls a story he once read in Part 6?

5. What do the men wonder about as they head toward shore in Part 4 ?

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