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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6: Chapter 16 ("A Winged Steed") through Chapter 18 ("Repairs and Fortifications").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what work is being done at home while the boys go off to the Gap?
(a) They are repairing damage to the pinnace.
(b) They are smoking boar meat.
(c) They are harvesting bamboo.
(d) They are building a sugar mill.

2. Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what does the family find that will allow Elizabeth to make cloth?
(a) Flax.
(b) A loom.
(c) A spinning wheel.
(d) Cotton.

3. On their second trip out to the shipwreck, what do they discover washed up on an island?
(a) A dead sailor.
(b) One of their missing sheep.
(c) The shark that Fritz shot.
(d) The trunks and barrels from the captain's room.

4. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what has damaged the crops, bridge, and aqueduct?
(a) A storm.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Neglect.
(d) Buffalo.

5. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what creatures does Fritz poison in large numbers?
(a) Seals.
(b) Fish.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they make dog armor from?

2. What important substances does the narrator tell his sons can be obtained from fir trees?

3. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what clever way do the boys find of communicating across distances?

4. In Chapter 11, "Our Estates," what kind of fish arrives in large numbers?

5. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what animals threaten the family's dogs while the boys have them at Woodlands?

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