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

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

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

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

5. Whose idea is it to make the boat out of barrels?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Frtiz.
(c) Jack.
(d) Ernest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the family end up alone on the ship?

3. What is the narrator's usual criticism of Jack?

4. From the speed of nightfall, what does the narrator deduce?

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

(see the answer key)

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