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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. What are the men facing in Part 2?
(a) Being rescued.
(b) A wall of water rushing at them.
(c) Starvation.
(d) Each other.

2. What happens as the men get closer to land?
(a) The men get further from land, not closer.
(b) The men rejoice.
(c) The wind picks up.
(d) The waves capsize the boat.

3. What does the captain remind the other men?
(a) That they must rest.
(b) That they are going to die.
(c) That they are nearly out of food.
(d) That they will reach the shore.

4. What does the captain try to do to their intruders?
(a) Beat them with an oar.
(b) Shoo them away.
(c) Capture them.
(d) Shoot them.

5. What do the men use as a mast?
(a) A mast.
(b) An oar.
(c) A mop.
(d) One of the men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are these four men returning from?

2. What do the men do to gain assistance from the wind in Part 3?

3. Who is injured?

4. Who is the crew on the tiny boat?

5. How does the object in Part 2 taunt the men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the captain advise the others to do at the end of Part 3?

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

3. What do the correspondent and cook argue about at the end of Part 1, and how is their dispute ended?

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

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

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

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

8. Why do the four men construct a sail, and how?

9. What is the cook doing in Part 1?

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

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