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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the correspondent give almost anything for near the end of Part 5?
(a) For the shark to go away.
(b) For a bite of food.
(c) For a good night's sleep.
(d) For his friends to drown.

2. What is in better view towards the end of Part 3?
(a) Land.
(b) The sun.
(c) The lighthouse.
(d) The waves.

3. What aims at the captain's head?
(a) Wind.
(b) Seagulls.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Waves.

4. What do the men realize when the water changes from gray to emerald green?
(a) That it must be daylight.
(b) That the storm has arrived.
(c) That the storm has lifted.
(d) That it is nighttime.

5. Who calms the dispute towards the end of Part 1?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The captain.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men feel about the results gained from constructing the sail?

2. What do the waves seem determined to do?

3. What is the oiler doing in Part 5?

4. What does the correspondent find in his pocket?

5. Which man's life is not of the sea?

(see the answer key)

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