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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hope appears in Part 5?
(a) None.
(b) A lifesaving boat.
(c) The winds quiet.
(d) The lighthouse.

2. In Part 5, who does the correspondent wish would wake up?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain.
(c) The shark.
(d) One of his friends.

3. What does the correspondent see when he comes up for air?
(a) No one else has made it above water.
(b) His three companions are also above the water, struggling to shore.
(c) The boat has disappeared.
(d) Men from shore swimming out to rescue them.

4. Who is exhaustion overtaking in Part 3?
(a) The cook and the captain.
(b) The two rowers and the man doing the bailing.
(c) The two rowers and the captain.
(d) The correspondent and the oiler.

5. What do the people onshore bring to the beach at the end of Part 7?
(a) A doctor.
(b) Items of rescue and comfort.
(c) There are no people on shore.
(d) The men's families.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men view their current situation in Part 2?

2. Where do the men turn the boat at the captain's command in Part 7?

3. Who silently marks their adventure as the best experience that he has ever had?

4. Why do the four men become the most loyal of friends?

5. What do the men do all afternoon after being deluged in Part 4?

(see the answer key)

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