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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who silently marks their adventure as the best experience that he has ever had?

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

3. What is being rocked as the novel opens?

4. Who tries to calm the other men?

5. What do the waves seem determined to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the shark do?

2. As the correspondent reaches the shore, what does he see the oiler doing?

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

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

5. What are the four men about to do at the beginning of Part 5?

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

7. What do the oiler and correspondent take turns doing, and how?

8. What are the four men doing in Part 5?

9. How does the captain try to calm the other three men?

10. What does the correspondent see when he wakes at the beginning of Part 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does the friendship between the four men affect the story?

Essay Topic 2

How would the story be different if the oiler had lived?

Essay Topic 3

What role does nature play in this book? How do the four men view nature? In what ways can Nature be seen as a character in "The Open Boat"?

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