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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. What do the men entertain the thought of towards the end of Part 1?

2. What do the men construct in Part 3 that yields immediate results?

3. Who is rowing when the lighthouse comes into view?

4. How do the men view the intruders?

5. Which man's life is not of the sea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene at the beginning of Part 1.

2. When the boat is deluged again, what does the captain tell the others to do, and why?

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

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

5. What taunts the four men, and why?

6. Describe the setting at the beginning of Part 5.

7. 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?

8. How did the correspondent feel about the recalled story when he read it?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the story that the correspondent recalls about the Legionnaire who died in Algiers? How does this contribute to the book as a whole?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the motifs in this story and detail its recurrences throughout the story. What does it add to the story? How does it affect the difference characters?

Essay Topic 3

How is perspective used in Crane's "The Open Boat"?

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