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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 4 ("Back to the Wreck") through Chapter 6 ("Ernest and Me").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From the speed of nightfall, what does the narrator deduce?
(a) Their island is unexpectedly large.
(b) There must be mountains somewhere past the cliffs.
(c) They are farther West than he had imagined.
(d) They must be near the equator.

2. What do they make their swimming belts from?
(a) Rope and empty flasks.
(b) The remains of the life vests.
(c) Seaweed and empty kegs.
(d) Strips of sailcloth and cushions.

3. Which animals does the family carry from the ship with them in their improvised boat?
(a) The dogs.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Goats.

4. Who discovers oysters and salt?
(a) Ernest.
(b) Jack.
(c) Franz.
(d) The narrator.

5. How old is Franz at the beginning of the story?
(a) 8.
(b) His age is not given.
(c) 4 1/2.
(d) Almost 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first structure that the family lives in?

2. When the narrator sees the tall, arching roots of the trees where they are going to build their home, what kind of tree does he say they are?

3. When the tree house is proposed, what is the narrator's response?

4. What do the narrator and Fritz discover that they can make utensils out of?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 6, "Ernest and Me," what tradition does the family observe?

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