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

2. How does the family end up alone on the ship?
(a) Elizabeth insists on going back below for the family Bible.
(b) The sailors get into the lifeboats and abandon them.
(c) The family is asleep when the order is given to take to the lifeboats.
(d) The family has trouble locating Franz.

3. Just as the narrator and Fritz are about to leave camp to explore for the first time, what does he suddenly remember that they have forgotten?
(a) To pray.
(b) Their guns.
(c) One of the dogs.
(d) To say goodbye to Elizabeth.

4. What does Ernest do that causes the narrator to criticize him for thinking he is "clever" (18)?
(a) Get himself stuck in the mud by the river.
(b) Bend one of the gun barrels.
(c) Lecture his brothers about things he actually does not know about.
(d) Sets his soup down to cool in a larger shell.

5. On their way in to shore, what is it revealed that Jack has thought to bring along?
(a) Food for the dogs.
(b) The captain's spyglass.
(c) A compass.
(d) A revolver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator decide they need to build before they can build the treehouse?

2. What does "Robinson" refer to in the title of the book?

3. What does the family name "Falconhurst"?

4. At the end of Chapter 5, "A New Home," what does Elizabeth say about another trip to the shipwreck?

5. How old is Franz at the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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