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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where do the men spend the first night?
(a) In the boats
(b) On a small piece of land
(c) On an ice floe
(d) On a pressure ridge

3. What are the men able to salvage?
(a) A cannon
(b) Sixteen chickens
(c) Three boats
(d) Rain buckets

4. By April, what surrounds Patience Camp?
(a) Leopard seals
(b) Pressure ridges
(c) Islets of land
(d) Leads of open water

5. Who suffers a heart attack?
(a) Orde-Lees
(b) Leeds
(c) Rickenson
(d) Shackleton

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the route supposed to start from in the first expedition of Shackleton's proposed trans-Antarctic expedition?

2. The crew forms social organizations based on what?

3. Mortgaging the expedition means what?

4. How much meat does the crew collect by the end of April?

5. Why does Shackleton move the food stores near his tent?

(see the answer key)

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