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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game do the men play in camp?
(a) Bridge
(b) Uno
(c) Euchre
(d) Golf

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

3. What does the crew do during the months they are trapped?
(a) Swim in the ocean
(b) Work on routine tasks
(c) Carve wooden swords
(d) Hold dances

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

5. What begins to build up around the Endurance that worries the men?
(a) Graves
(b) Seal bones
(c) Snow banks
(d) Pressure ridges

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the main event in Chapter 1?

2. Shackleton's first voyage is under whose leadership?

3. What causes clashes in the camp?

4. Where does Shackleton sail after Buenos Aires?

5. Shackleton is told that the Weddell Sea is full of what?

(see the answer key)

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