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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 7 ("Bread") through Chapter 9 ("A Growing Managerie").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the family test whether fruits are safe to eat?
(a) They see if their monkey will eat them.
(b) They look to see if any of the island's animals eat the fruit.
(c) They eat a small piece first.
(d) They ask Ernest, who knows a lot about the natural world.

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

3. In Chapter 8, "The Pinnace," what creature does Jack mistake for a crocodile?
(a) A Komodo dragon
(b) A caiman.
(c) A water monitor.
(d) An iguana.

4. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what does the narrator use tobacco grinders for?
(a) To grind tobacco.
(b) To shred manioc.
(c) To prepare coconut.
(d) To grind corn.

5. In Chapter 7, "Bread," when the family sleeps in one morning, what is the narrator's response?
(a) He suggests that they may have been working too hard.
(b) He threatens to take away their mattresses.
(c) He says it is only natural when there are no clocks.
(d) He prays for God to make them less slothful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what do the narrator and Fritz do first when they get to the wreck?

2. In Chapter 8, "The Pinnace," what new weapon does the narrator make for his sons?

3. Why does the ship have so many useful supplies on board?

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

5. What do they make dog armor from?

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