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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pounds of meat does the leopard seal provide?
(a) 100 pounds
(b) 1000 pounds
(c) 500 pounds
(d) 5000 pounds

2. Rations consist of what meat?
(a) Penguin
(b) Bear
(c) Reindeer
(d) Moose

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

4. Whose dog team is the last to be killed?
(a) Leeds
(b) Schwan
(c) Macklin
(d) Blackboro

5. What does McNeish do to the three boats?
(a) Expand them
(b) Reinforce them
(c) Make them more comfortable
(d) Paint them

Short Answer Questions

1. Mortgaging the expedition means what?

2. What confines the men to their tents for days at a time?

3. What do Shackleton and the crew realize about the ice?

4. What begins to build up around the Endurance that worries the men?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads the men to take to the boats?

2. What experience does Shackleton have as an explorer?

3. How do the men deal with the food shortages?

4. What are the men like that Shackleton takes with him as the crew?

5. What initial plan do the men make to put themselves in a better position?

6. What do the men do to pass the time on the ice floe?

7. What happens to the Endurance?

8. What do the men do after they realize that the Endurance is trapped in the ice?

9. What do the men do after they abandon the Endurance?

10. How is the Endurance designed for a polar expedition?

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