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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Gives up and works on another project.
(b) Keeps trying until he succeeds.
(c) Reads a book in their library about how to train the animals.
(d) Asks Ernest for advice.

2. What is the first name that the family gives to their cave house?
(a) Rock House.
(b) Cave House.
(c) Grottoburg.
(d) The Cavern.

3. In Chapter 18, "Repairs and Fortifications," what creature frightens the boys enough that they send for help from their father?
(a) Hippos.
(b) Water buffaloes.
(c) Rhinos.
(d) Elephants.

4. In Chapter 10, "Changing Seasons," from what material does the narrator make the family boots?
(a) Wool felt.
(b) Wood and palm fronds.
(c) Rubber.
(d) Sharkskin.

5. In Chapter 16, "A Winged Steed," what creature becomes the family's "winged steed"?
(a) An emu.
(b) An ostrich.
(c) A cassowary.
(d) A condor.

6. In the beginning of Chapter 16, "A Winged Steed," what does the narrator announce that the boys are allowed to do without him?
(a) Explore.
(b) Take the pinnace out.
(c) Hunt.
(d) Decide what to work on during the day.

7. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," what does the family do with the corpse of the creature that killed one of their animals and put the family in danger?
(a) The butcher and eat it.
(b) They haul it to a pit and bury it.
(c) They stuff it and display it in their home.
(d) They bury it at sea.

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

9. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what unanticipated danger do the narrator and his sons face?
(a) A leaking boat.
(b) A walrus attack.
(c) A sudden storm.
(d) A current that carries the pinnace far out to sea.

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

11. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," when the family is making baskets, what idea does Fritz have?
(a) To make a chicken coop from a large basket.
(b) To weave a shallow basket for fishing.
(c) To make a basket to carry Elizabeth.
(d) To make the family hats from the same materials.

12. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what reason does the narrator give for allowing Fritz to travel ahead alone in the kayak?
(a) There is really no danger that Fritz is likely to run into.
(b) Fritz has proven that he can make good judgments on his own.
(c) There is not enough room on the pinnace for both Fritz and his boat.
(d) Fritz is showing independence.

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

14. In Chapter 13, "Unpleasant Tasks," what does the family pass the winter learning?
(a) Basket weaving.
(b) Languages.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Fishing techniques.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the family build around the roots of the tree that supports Falconhurst?

3. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what watercraft does the family cover with seal skins?

4. In Chapter 17, "Bounty and Peril," what crop does the family harvest "Italian style" (266)?

5. In Chapter 14, "A Casualty," what food do the boys persuade Elizabeth to cook and then find disgusting?

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