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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 10 ("Changing Seasons") through Chapter 12 ("Anniversary").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's usual criticism of Jack?
(a) He is immature and impulsive.
(b) He is too emotional.
(c) He has a quick temper.
(d) He spends too much time thinking.

2. What does the family hear the sailors shouting just before the ship hits the rocks?
(a) Abandon ship!
(b) Land!
(c) Ahoy!
(d) Sharks!

3. Why does the ship have so many useful supplies on board?
(a) No reason is actually given.
(b) Its mission was to resupply a colony.
(c) All ships of the time carried these things.
(d) The voyage was expected to be very long.

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

5. In Chapter 12, "Anniversary," what important date does the family celebrate?
(a) The ten-year anniversary of the family's conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism.
(b) The sixteen-year anniversary of the narrator and Elizabeth's marraige.
(c) Elizabeth's thirty-fifth birthday.
(d) The one-year anniversary of their stranding on the island.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "Bread," when the family sleeps in one morning, what is the narrator's response?

2. What substance does the family use to treat animal wounds?

3. In Chapter 9, "A Growing Menagerie," why is the narrator pleased to find wax myrtle?

4. How do the narrator and Fritz get the sheep and goats to shore?

5. What two kinds of birds does the family first spot living along the shore?

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