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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the intruders finally do?
(a) Knock the captain overboard.
(b) Join the four men on the boat.
(c) Die.
(d) Leave the men alone.

3. Who confirms seeing the lighthouse?
(a) The captain.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The cook.
(d) The oiler.

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

5. How long do the oiler and correspondent take turns rowing in Part 2?
(a) For three days.
(b) For quite some time.
(c) For over a week.
(d) For nearly a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men use as a mast?

2. Who bails water from the boat?

3. What is temporarily buoyed by the sight of the lighthouse?

4. What does the correspondent take turns doing with the oiler in Part 2?

5. How did the injured character sustain his injuries?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the correspondent reaches the shore, what does he see the oiler doing?

2. What does the shark do?

3. Why does the chance of survival seem optimistic at best?

4. When the captain interrupts the correspondent's reverie, what does he say, and how do the men react?

5. What story does the correspondent recall reading?

6. What do the men see as they row for their lives in Part 1?

7. What is the oiler doing in Part 1?

8. What happens when night comes at the end of Part 4?

9. In Part 4, where does the captain instruct the others to take the boat, and why?

10. What does the correspondent think about nature in Part 7?

(see the answer keys)

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