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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. How do the men view the intruders?
(a) As disgusting and annoying.
(b) As an ominous omen.
(c) As potential food.
(d) As friends.

2. Whose nature is naturally more cynical than the others'?
(a) The captain.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The correspondent.

3. Who rows with the correspondent?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The captain.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The cook.

4. How do the men feel when the intruders leave?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Sad.
(d) Relieved.

5. What determines the gravity of a situation?
(a) The danger.
(b) The age of the people involved.
(c) Nature.
(d) Perspective and view.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calms the dispute towards the end of Part 1?

2. Who is present at the opening of the novel?

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

4. Why are the men forced into rowing again in Part 3?

5. How long has it been since the four men have slept?

Short Essay Questions

1. Near the end of Part 5, what does the correspondent want, and why?

2. What is the result of the four men going without sleep for two days and nights?

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

4. Who rows together, and how?

5. What is unknown or unclear about the men's situation?

6. What does the correspondent think about his time in the boat?

7. What does the correspondent see in the middle of Part 6, and what does he do as a result?

8. What does the correspondent see when he resurfaces after jumping from the boat?

9. When the boat is deluged again, what does the captain tell the others to do, and why?

10. How does the correspondent show great character in Part 5?

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