1. As he heads home and stops to look back, what does Santiago see?
(a) Nothing, because there is no light.
(b) Gulls swarming around his boat.
(c) Small sharks trying to get the last of the meat off the marlin.
(d) The skeleton of the great fish lashed to the skiff.

2. Santiago's respect for nature and the marlin he has on his line is profound. What does he think about the people who will eat the great fish?
(a) They will receive some of the marlin's strength when they eat him.
(b) They are unworthy to eat him.
(c) They will be more dignified than the marlin.
(d) They will refuse to eat him.

3. What does Santiago mean when he says that he must think because that is all he has left?
(a) As long as he keeps on thinking, he knows he is still alive.
(b) His thinking will help keep him awake after losing so much sleep.
(c) Thinking will keep him from feeling lonely without the boy there to help him.
(d) He can only survive by using the intelligence he has that sharks do not have.

4. After the second brown shark is killed, what does it do?
(a) It hangs onto the place where it had bit into the marlin.
(b) It pulls the marlin down with its lifeless body to the bottom of the sea.
(c) It pulls the skiff over by its dead weight.
(d) It jumps into the boat with Santiago.

5. What does Santiago imagine was the reason the fish finally jumped?
(a) To show him how big he was.
(b) To get some air.
(c) To see what manner of man he was fighting with.
(d) To see if the hook would fall out.