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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What resumes as the light returns?
(a) Seal hunting
(b) Chicken roasts
(c) Thickening ice
(d) Dances

2. What word best describes the first camp?
(a) Old
(b) Warm
(c) Exciting
(d) Miserable

3. What does Shackleton do the first night after they leave Elephant Island?
(a) Discuss the situation with Worsley
(b) Fish off the side of the boat
(c) Turns around and goes back
(d) Cries

4. What does Shackleton acknowledge as the men try to make it across the pack ice?
(a) Progress by sledge is all but impossible
(b) He is dying of hypothermia
(c) They need to use the dog sleds
(d) They have to abondon most of their food to lighten the sledge

5. What do the men see when the fog lifts?
(a) A glacier
(b) Land
(c) A whale
(d) A large ice floe

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men spend their time in the boat?

2. How many nautical miles do the men travel in the boats?

3. Shackleton and his men suffer from what?

4. Who is the first person on shore?

5. What are the men dependent on while they are on the pack ice?

(see the answer key)

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