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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the correspondent find in his pocket?
(a) Food.
(b) A piece of paper.
(c) A match.
(d) Four dry cigars.

2. What do the men learn quickly?
(a) That they cannot construct a sail.
(b) That with each crashing wave, there is another one right on its wake.
(c) That they are near land.
(d) That they will never reach land.

3. What makes the men feel the way they do about their current situation in Part 2?
(a) The storm.
(b) The small size of their boat.
(c) Being where they are.
(d) The waves.

4. Which man's life is not of the sea?
(a) The captain.
(b) The correspondent.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The cook.

5. Who rows with the correspondent?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The correspondent.

6. What are the men facing in Part 2?
(a) A wall of water rushing at them.
(b) Each other.
(c) Being rescued.
(d) Starvation.

7. What does the captain try to do to their intruders?
(a) Shoot them.
(b) Beat them with an oar.
(c) Shoo them away.
(d) Capture them.

8. Where do the four men hope to find refuge?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Bumblebee Cove.
(c) Italy.
(d) Mosquito Inlet Lighthouse.

9. What do the men use as a sail?
(a) A tarp.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A sail.
(d) The captain's overcoat.

10. Who is trying to figure out what he is doing on the boat?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The captain.

11. What do the men use as a mast?
(a) A mast.
(b) An oar.
(c) A mop.
(d) One of the men.

12. What does the correspondent take turns doing with the oiler in Part 2?
(a) Complaining about their chance of being rescued.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Eating dinner.
(d) Rowing with both oars.

13. Who dampens the others' spirits in Part 3?
(a) The captain.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The cook.
(d) The correspondent.

14. Who advises the others not to overdo it?
(a) The oiler.
(b) The cook.
(c) The captain.
(d) The correspondent.

15. What is temporarily buoyed by the sight of the lighthouse?
(a) The men's spirits.
(b) The wind.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is forced into rowing again in Part 3?

2. Why are these four men on the tiny boat?

3. What does the correspondent argue about?

4. Who first spots a lighthouse?

5. What does the captain use to get rid of their intruders?

(see the answer keys)

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