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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 does the captain use to get rid of their intruders?

2. What is the only thing the men can see at the book's beginning?

3. How did the injured character sustain his injuries?

4. What does each man finally catch a glimpse of after constructing the sail?

5. How do the men view their current situation in Part 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when night comes at the end of Part 4?

2. What would the men think if they could view their situation from a different vantage point?

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

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

5. What does the correspondent think about his time in the boat?

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

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. Describe the actions of the man onshore while the four men are swimming toward shore.

9. What is the only thing that the correspondent can do in Part 5 while the shark is present?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the ambiguous background information about the four men and their journey add to the plot? How does it hinder the plot?

Essay Topic 2

How are the different symbols (the sea, the lighthouse, the boat, etc.) used throughout the story to represent abstract concepts? Detail and explain how the symbols are used to describe certain abstract concepts and which concepts they describe.

Essay Topic 3

How does the relationship between the four men affect the story's plot?

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