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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the woman who swims ashore feel when she is with the person who first greets her?
(a) That she must get better to protect the person.
(b) At home.
(c) Safe and protected.
(d) Uncomfortable and unsafe.

2. What tool does Cruso first give to Susan?
(a) A clay cooking bowl.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A fish bone needle.
(d) A writing utensil.

3. How does Susan describe the food on the island?
(a) Bland, plant based, and grisly.
(b) Readily available and luscious.
(c) Strange and exotic.
(d) Scarce and very monotonous.

4. Why does the woman in the beginning of the story say she slips over the side of the boat and swims to shore?
(a) The boat is leaking.
(b) To escape the other occupant of the boat.
(c) She cannot row any further.
(d) To get to a person on shore.

5. What best describes the person who first meets the woman who swims ashore in the beginning of the story?
(a) A white man.
(b) A woman wearing a bonnet.
(c) A boy with a shaved head.
(d) A black man.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Susan sleep on her first night on the island?

2. Why do Friday's feet bleed in Part One?

3. What does Cruso tell Susan when he gives her a knife in Part One?

4. What is the meal that Susan enjoys after the ship first arrives on the island?

5. Where does Susan see Friday working when she awakens her first morning on the island?

(see the answer key)

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