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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. What does the family decide to name "Tentholm"?
(a) The treehouse.
(b) Their first home.
(c) One of the islands in the bay.
(d) Their boat.

2. How do the narrator and Fritz get the sheep and goats to shore?
(a) The sheep and goats get themselves to shore.
(b) A raft.
(c) In their boat.
(d) Swimming belts.

3. On their second trip out to the shipwreck, what do they discover washed up on an island?
(a) A dead sailor.
(b) One of their missing sheep.
(c) The shark that Fritz shot.
(d) The trunks and barrels from the captain's room.

4. When the tree house is proposed, what is the narrator's response?
(a) That would be a great idea, if we could fly.
(b) It is too difficult to get materials up so high to build.
(c) A house in the trees would never be safe for Franz.
(d) That would keep us safe from animals on the ground.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what important food crop does Ernest discover?

2. In Chapter 9, "A Growing Menagerie," why is the narrator pleased to find wax myrtle?

3. What is the narrator's response when Ernest says that he wishes they could have some butter?

4. 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?

5. What do the narrator and his wife decide the family's first priority should be?

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