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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of wood did Slocum use to repair the Spray?
(a) Oak.
(b) Cherry.
(c) Maple.
(d) Pine.

2. What word does Slocum use to describe Fuego?
(a) Enchanting.
(b) Lost.
(c) Frigid.
(d) Dismal.

3. Which is not listed as being one of the authors read by Slocum?
(a) Cervantes.
(b) Hemingway.
(c) Defoe.
(d) Stevenson.

4. In what year did Slocum buy the boat from the captain?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1879.
(d) 1892.

5. Slocum was offered a job aboard the experimental gunboat called:
(a) Destroyer.
(b) Sluice.
(c) Victory.
(d) Harbinger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the boat purchased from the captain?

2. What was the name of Slocum's old adversary?

3. What is the name of the province where Slocum was born?

4. What is the capital of the province where the Slocums lived?

5. What is the name of Joshua Slocum's sister?

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