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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why did individuals want to be a part of Shackleton's expedition?
(a) Good wages
(b) To escape prison
(c) Possible treasure
(d) Potential adventure and renown
2. Who shoots the first dog team to be killed?
(a) Leeds
(b) Wesley
(c) Wild
(d) Shackleton
3. What personal items are salvaged after the first sledging attempt?
(a) Boots
(b) Photographic equipment
(c) Carved masks
(d) Paintings
4. What is the second camp called?
(a) Waiting Camp
(b) Frozen Ice Camp
(c) Mark Time Camp
(d) Eternity Camp
5. What is the third boat named, which is recovered from Ocean Camp?
(a) Dogfight Boat
(b) The Red Vessel
(c) Dancing Sailor
(d) Stancomb Wills
6. Where does Shackleton head for final provisioning?
(a) Cape Town
(b) Buenos Aires
(c) Boston
(d) San Francisco
7. What does the crew realize as they make their way with the sledges?
(a) Substantive movement by sledge is simply impossible
(b) The ice floe they are on is shrinking
(c) They are only five miles from Paulet Island
(d) They will need to leave the dogs behind
8. The Endurance gets to within 200 miles of Vahsel Bay by when?
(a) March 30
(b) June 1
(c) Mid-August
(d) Mid-January
9. What does McNeish do to the three boats?
(a) Make them more comfortable
(b) Expand them
(c) Reinforce them
(d) Paint them
10. What is in the stomach of the leopard seal that is shot?
(a) A man's hand
(b) A fishing line
(c) A squid
(d) 50 undigested fish
11. The men come to realize that what will determine their fate?
(a) God
(b) Shackleton
(c) External elements
(d) Their own determination
12. What does Shackleton acknowledge as the men try to make it across the pack ice?
(a) He is dying of hypothermia
(b) They need to use the dog sleds
(c) They have to abondon most of their food to lighten the sledge
(d) Progress by sledge is all but impossible
13. What game do the men play in camp?
(a) Golf
(b) Uno
(c) Euchre
(d) Bridge
14. What occurs in October 1915?
(a) Shackleton finally reaches the pole
(b) Shackleton dies
(c) The men free the ship
(d) The Endurance begins to take on water
15. Why does Shackleton stop the men from retrieving the three seals that they kill?
(a) The ice is too dangerous where the seals are
(b) A polar bear is not far away
(c) He doesn't want them eating seal meat
(d) He wants to get them himself
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the crew do during the months they are trapped?
2. Where did the men camp after abandoning the ship?
3. What word best describes the first camp?
4. Mortgaging the expedition means what?
5. What confines the men to their tents for days at a time?
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