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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What provides light for the men in Part 5?
(a) A bonfire on shore.
(b) A candle lit by a match.
(c) There is no light.
(d) The lighthouse.

2. What do the men need both the oiler and correspondent's strength for in Part 6?
(a) Cooking dinner.
(b) Protecting the captain.
(c) Rowing to shore.
(d) Swimming to shore while carrying the cook.

3. What circles the boat?
(a) A shark.
(b) Another boat.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Seagulls.

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

5. Who is the only person awake at the beginning of Part 6?
(a) The captain.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The cook.

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

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

8. 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) They do not head out toward deeper water.
(d) Why the captain insists upon going out to deeper water.

9. What does the correspondent curse?
(a) His friends.
(b) Nature.
(c) The sea.
(d) The wind.

10. Whose point of view is the entirety of "The Open Boat" told from?
(a) The captain.
(b) The oiler.
(c) It alternates between the characters.
(d) The correspondent.

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

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

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

14. What happens when the man onshore runs to a house?
(a) The four men on the boat cry.
(b) The four men on the boat dive into the sea and swim toward shore.
(c) He never returns.
(d) Another man joins him in waving.

15. In Part 4, who tells the men to take the boat back out to sea?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The captain.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spots a watch fire on the beach in Part 6?

2. What do the men do in Part 5?

3. Who stops the correspondent's watch of the object in Part 6?

4. Why do the men have to take the boat back out to sea in Part 4?

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

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