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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Chapter 1 ("Shipwreck and Desertion") through Chapter 3 ("Our First Landfall").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and his wife decide the family's first priority should be?
(a) Making a more secure home.
(b) Searching for other survivors.
(c) Locating a source of fresh water.
(d) Taking inventory of their survival supplies.

2. Who thinks of eating their soup from oyster shells?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ernest.

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

4. What is the first structure that the family lives in?
(a) A treehouse.
(b) A cave.
(c) A hut.
(d) A tent.

5. What two kinds of birds does the family first spot living along the shore?
(a) Flamingos and penguins.
(b) Geese and penguins.
(c) Geese and cranes.
(d) Flamingos and cranes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the family hear the sailors shouting just before the ship hits the rocks?

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

3. Who discovers oysters and salt?

4. What does Jack find in the captain's cabin?

5. What does Ernest do that causes the narrator to criticize him for thinking he is "clever" (18)?

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