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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 friends.
(c) As an ominous omen.
(d) As potential food.

2. Why are the men forced into rowing again in Part 3?
(a) The wind dies down.
(b) They never stop rowing.
(c) They are not forced into rowing again.
(d) The sail breaks.

3. Why do the men row?
(a) They do not row.
(b) To save their lives.
(c) For exercise.
(d) For sport.

4. What is temporarily buoyed by the sight of the lighthouse?
(a) The wind.
(b) The boat.
(c) The men's spirits.
(d) Nothing.

5. Who bails water from the boat?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The captain.
(c) The cook.
(d) The correspondent.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the men use as a sail?

3. Who tries to calm the other men?

4. Why are these four men on the tiny boat?

5. What is being rocked as the novel opens?

Short Essay Questions

1. After the oiler takes the correspondent's place at the oars in Part 6, what does the captain tell the cook to do, and why?

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

3. What does the correspondent think as he tries to swim to the captain after escaping the current?

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

5. What role do the seagulls play in Part 2?

6. What does the sight of the lighthouse do to the four men?

7. What does the correspondent do when the oiler takes his place at the oars in Part 6?

8. How does the correspondent feel about the recalled story now?

9. Why do the men's hopes not sink at the beginning of Part 4?

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

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