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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," what does the narrator do when he finds it difficult to train the animals to pull with a yoke?
(a) Keeps trying until he succeeds.
(b) Gives up and works on another project.
(c) Reads a book in their library about how to train the animals.
(d) Asks Ernest for advice.

4. What gourmet food does the family obtain in Chapter 11, "Our Estates"?
(a) Escargot.
(b) Caviar.
(c) Foie gras.
(d) Truffles.

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

6. In Chapter 15, "We Explore Inland," what new creature does Ernest discover and kill a great number of?
(a) Minks.
(b) Beavers.
(c) Weasels.
(d) Muskrats.

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

8. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what does the narrator name the new donkey colt?
(a) Storm.
(b) Lightfoot.
(c) Grumble.
(d) Swift.

9. 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) There is an enormous snake on the island preying on the antelope.
(b) The antelope have had a number of babies.
(c) There is a spring where the antelope can get fresh water.
(d) The antelope have eaten all of their fruit trees.

10. In Chapter 12, "Anniversary," what important date does the family celebrate?
(a) The ten-year anniversary of the family's conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism.
(b) The one-year anniversary of their stranding on the island.
(c) Elizabeth's thirty-fifth birthday.
(d) The sixteen-year anniversary of the narrator and Elizabeth's marraige.

11. In Chapter 11, "Our Estates," what kind of fish arrives in large numbers?
(a) Grouper.
(b) Tuna.
(c) Herring.
(d) Mullet.

12. In Chapter 11, "Our Estates," where does the family decide to keep their supply of gunpowder?
(a) Inside the cave they will be living in.
(b) On one of the islands in the bay.
(c) At Falconhurst.
(d) In a hut near their cave.

13. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what problem does the narrator solve at Rock House?
(a) The smell from the animals housed there.
(b) Venting smoke from the fire.
(c) The lack of a secure front door.
(d) A lack of light.

14. In Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," who adopts Fritz's jackal puppy?
(a) Franz.
(b) A wild jackal.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Juno.

15. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what creatures does Fritz poison in large numbers?
(a) Seals.
(b) Birds.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," from what material does the narrator make the family boots?

3. In Chapter 15, "We Explore Inland," why does the narrator tell Jack that he must come along on their expedition to explore the island for snakes?

4. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what reason does the narrator give for allowing Fritz to travel ahead alone in the kayak?

5. In Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," what does Ernest train Knips to do?

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