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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator collect sap from the euphorbia tree?
(a) He intends to use it to poison monkeys.
(b) It is delicious when boiled down into a sugar.
(c) He will use it to make pitch for waterproofing the pinnace.
(d) He will use it to make turpentine.

2. Why does the narrator think that it is a good idea to keep rabbits on Whale Island?
(a) He wants to fortify the island as a place to stay if they are in danger, and he wants a steady food supply there.
(b) The rabbits are a good food source, but there is not enough room for them in the family's winter shelter.
(c) Whale Island is becoming overrun with a weed that they need to get rid of, and the rabbits will eat it.
(d) The rabbits will be amusing company for any family members working alone on Whale Island.

3. Inside their cave, what do the crystals turn out to be?
(a) Fluorite.
(b) Rock salt.
(c) Quartz.
(d) Magnetite.

4. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what work is being done at home while the boys go off to the Gap?
(a) They are repairing damage to the pinnace.
(b) They are harvesting bamboo.
(c) They are smoking boar meat.
(d) They are building a sugar mill.

5. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what clever way do the boys find of communicating across distances?
(a) Smoke signals.
(b) Semaphore flags.
(c) Tying messages to pigeons.
(d) Using gunshots as a kind of Morse code.

6. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what spice do the boys discover and dislike the taste of?
(a) Anise.
(b) Pepper.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Cloves.

7. In Chapter 11, "Our Estates," what does the narrator teach the boys to make from birch trees?
(a) Wintergreen candy.
(b) Roofing material.
(c) A canoe.
(d) Birch beer.

8. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," when Jack and Fritz scare Ernest by making the animals carrying him go too fast, what is the response of their parents?
(a) They laugh.
(b) They make Jack and Fritz do Ernest's chores.
(c) They tell Ernest to stop being so easily frightened.
(d) They give Jack and Fritz's animals to Ernest.

9. In Chapter 15, "We Explore Inland," how does Jack react to the noises that Fritz and the narrator make inside the cave?
(a) He is frightened and bursts into tears.
(b) He thinks they are in danger and rushes inside.
(c) He runs away and gets lost in the swamp.
(d) He yells into the cave and then fires his gun.

10. Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what does the family find that will allow Elizabeth to make cloth?
(a) Cotton.
(b) A loom.
(c) Flax.
(d) A spinning wheel.

11. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what does the family discover on Shark Island after they have left the antelope there for several months?
(a) The antelope have eaten all of their fruit trees.
(b) The antelope have had a number of babies.
(c) There is an enormous snake on the island preying on the antelope.
(d) There is a spring where the antelope can get fresh water.

12. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what happens to Jack when he is gathering canes?
(a) He and Fangs have to face down a pack of wild jackals.
(b) He finds their old donkey and its new mate.
(c) He falls in the swamp and gets stuck in the mud.
(d) He gets lost and the family has to search for him.

13. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," what new outpost does the family build?
(a) A plantation of coconut and sugar cane on one of the outlying islands.
(b) A boathouse for the pinnace offshore near Jackal River.
(c) A watchtower and gunpowder storage place near Cape Disappointment.
(d) A pasture and shelter for their larger animals near Prospect Hill.

14. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what is the "unpleasant task" that the chapter title refers to?
(a) Teaching Franz's bull calf to accept a rider.
(b) Killing the monkeys at the Woodlands.
(c) The long hike to rebuild the earth wall at the Gap.
(d) Rebuilding Falconhurst.

15. In Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what animal makes a noise in the woods that terrifies the family?
(a) A wolf.
(b) The donkey.
(c) The buffalo.
(d) A lion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what creatures does Fritz poison in large numbers?

2. What important substances does the narrator tell his sons can be obtained from fir trees?

3. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what does the narrator name the new donkey colt?

4. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what problem does the narrator solve at Rock House?

5. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what animals threaten the family's dogs while the boys have them at Woodlands?

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