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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many weeks was James Bartley unconscious after being rescued from the stomach of a whale?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 6 days.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 3 weeks.

2. How many people lived in the town that Jonah went to preach to according to Barnes?
(a) 215,000.
(b) 97,000.
(c) 85,000.
(d) 120,000.

3. How far were Amanda and Miss Logan from the peak when they encountered the first pocket of snow?
(a) 4,000 feet.
(b) 2,000 feet.
(c) 5,000 feet.
(d) 3,000 feet.

4. How long do Charlie and the crew have to wait after Matt's accident for the copter to come?
(a) 2 days.
(b) 12 hours.
(c) 24 hours.
(d) 3 days.

5. How many men appear in Gericault's painting?
(a) 20.
(b) 12.
(c) 26.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was a painting created about the shipwreck of the Medusa?

2. Who was the ma who was rumored to make it to the top of Mount Ararat?

3. Where was the raft found that the survivors on the frigate constructed?

4. After the sick were killed, how many days of provisions were left to sustain the survivors?

5. Who was Gericault's assistant who lived with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where should the words "I love you," be kept and why?

2. What does the eighteen-year-old expect when he takes a job as a prep-school master?

3. What did Colonel Fergusson take Amanda to see in 1821?

4. Describe the expedition to Senegal.

5. What happens on Thursday when the crew are filming?

6. What is different about the way the couple sleeps in "Parenthesis"?

7. What is the storyline based upon of the movie Charlie is acting in?

8. How were the survivors on the raft finally rescued?

9. In Section II of Chapter 5, how is catastrophe turned into art?

10. How is the woman's sleep sometimes broken and how does this affect the man in "Parenthesis"?

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