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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the only person awake at the beginning of Part 6?
(a) The cook.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The captain.
(d) The oiler.

2. What does the correspondent watch for in Part 5?
(a) The lighthouse to shine a light on them.
(b) The blue glint of the shark's fin.
(c) The men on shore to signal them in.
(d) The seagulls to return.

3. Why do the men need to head for shore in Part 4?
(a) Because it is dinner time and their families have meals prepared for them.
(b) Because people are waving to them.
(c) Because the boat is being destroyed by the waves and is going to sink.
(d) Because soon they will be too exhausted to swim even if they do get close.

4. Why are the men unable to reach shore safely in Part 4?
(a) They can reach shore safely now.
(b) They cannot even see the shore.
(c) They are too far away.
(d) The water is too deep.

5. What do the men wonder about as they head toward shore in Part 4 ?
(a) Who will win the bet about the exact hour that they will reach shore.
(b) Why they cannot swim like the fish.
(c) Why he has come so close to shore if he is going to be drowned.
(d) Whether they will see their families again.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is ordered to make the sail again in Part 6?

2. What did the recalled story mean to the reader at the time he read it?

3. What don't the men share with each other in Part 6?

4. What would the correspondent give almost anything for near the end of Part 5?

5. What do the men see soon after the man onshore returns from the house?

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