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

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

3. Who thinks to bring the bag of seeds ashore?
(a) Franz.
(b) Ernest.
(c) The narrator.
(d) Elizabeth.

4. What do the narrator and Fritz discover that they can make utensils out of?
(a) Gourds.
(b) Mussel shells.
(c) Turtle shells.
(d) Wood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On their way in to shore, what is it revealed that Jack has thought to bring along?

2. Who suggests that they build a raft to get to shore?

3. Who thinks of eating their soup from oyster shells?

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

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

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