View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused Slocum to vary his course?
(a) Broken mast.
(b) Pirates.
(c) Storm.
(d) Illness.

2. Who/what is Juan Fernandez?
(a) Ship.
(b) Island.
(c) Coffee grower.
(d) King.

3. Slocum was pleased when he was able to visit with the crew of which passing ship?
(a) Windswept.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Destroyer.
(d) Northern Light.

4. What location was Slocum approaching when he just missed a shipwreck?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Jamaica.
(c) Paraguay.
(d) Uruguay.

5. Slocum recalls receiving a warm welcome when he arrived at which location?
(a) Tasmania.
(b) Montevideo.
(c) Gibraltar.
(d) Cape of Good Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slocum was offered a job aboard the experimental gunboat called:

2. Slocum was pleased to be able to make an excursion to which major metropolitan city?

3. On what date did the Spray leave Buenos Aires?

4. After leaving the Channel, Slocum was on course as he traveled through which Strait?

5. Where did Slocum's grandfather work?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 151 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample