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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 do the men learn quickly?
(a) That with each crashing wave, there is another one right on its wake.
(b) That they are near land.
(c) That they cannot construct a sail.
(d) That they will never reach land.

2. What aims at the captain's head?
(a) Seaweed.
(b) Wind.
(c) Seagulls.
(d) Waves.

3. What do the men use as a sail?
(a) A blanket.
(b) The captain's overcoat.
(c) A tarp.
(d) A sail.

4. What floats by to taunt the men?
(a) Seagulls.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) A message in a bottle.
(d) A jacket.

5. What suggests the men have been on a noteworthy trip?
(a) Their eagerness to reach safety.
(b) Their nice clothes.
(c) The presence of the correspondent.
(d) The presence of the captain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What determines the gravity of a situation?

2. Who is forced into rowing again in Part 3?

3. What do the men use as a mast?

4. Who advises the others not to overdo it?

5. Who dampens the others' spirits in Part 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the four men see at the beginning of Part 4, and what do they think is odd?

3. Why is the correspondent unable to see the lighthouse?

4. What is the correspondent doing in Part 1?

5. What are the men quickly learning in Part 1?

6. 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?

7. Since they can see no one onshore in Part 7, what does the captain decide, and why?

8. Why is it important for the oiler and correspondent to retain their strength at the end of Part 6?

9. What does the captain finally spot near the end of Part 2?

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

(see the answer keys)

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