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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea seems optimistic at best?
(a) Meeting their deadline.
(b) Reaching land.
(c) Finding dinner.
(d) Surviving the storm.

2. What do the men focus on as they row in Part 1?
(a) Only the wave in front of them.
(b) The color of the sky.
(c) Each other.
(d) The fish that may become their dinner.

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

4. What does the captain use to get rid of their intruders?
(a) His good arm.
(b) An oar.
(c) He cannot get rid of them.
(d) His rifle.

5. Why is it obvious that none of the other life boats have made it back to shore?
(a) Because they have not seen the other life boats.
(b) Because no one is out searching for them.
(c) Because there are no other life boats.
(d) The oiler does not make this claims.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the crew on the tiny boat?

2. Why do the oiler and correspondent sit on the same seat?

3. Why is the correspondent unable to see the lighthouse?

4. Who commands the tiny boat?

5. What suggests the men have been on a noteworthy trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the four men doing in Part 5?

2. What does the captain finally spot near the end of Part 2?

3. What taunts the four men, and why?

4. Who is the captain of the boat, and what is his crew comprised of?

5. What story does the correspondent recall reading?

6. What do the men see as they row for their lives in Part 1?

7. Who rows together, and how?

8. What is the result of the four men going without sleep for two days and nights?

9. How is the correspondent different from the other three men?

10. Describe the setting at the beginning of Part 5.

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