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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who stows away on the ship in order to become a crew member?
(a) Blackboro
(b) Edmund Randolph
(c) Francis Drake
(d) Hopper

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

3. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?
(a) Francis Drake
(b) Robert F. Scott
(c) Christopher Columbus
(d) Edmund Hillary

4. Mortgaging the expedition means what?
(a) Selling in advance the rights to whatever commercial exploitation the expedition might produce
(b) Putting the expedition into debt by buying supplies
(c) Agreeing to pay back the amount loaned or the ship could be repossessed
(d) Putting up the ship and supplies as collatoral

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How far are the men from Paulet Island?

3. Who works on the ship's three boats?

4. When does Shackleton decide to try the sledges again?

5. What does McNeish do to the three boats?

(see the answer key)

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