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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 is being rocked as the novel opens?
(a) The large ship.
(b) The baby.
(c) The carriage.
(d) The tiny boat.
2. Who is on the boat besides the cook, oiler, and captain?
(a) The cook.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The correspondent.
3. Whose nature is naturally more cynical than the others'?
(a) The cook.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The correspondent.
(d) The captain.
4. Why do the four men become the most loyal of friends?
(a) They are very alike.
(b) They have always been loyal friends.
(c) They do not.
(d) Their current circumstances.
5. What is the only thing the men can see at the book's beginning?
(a) The slate color of the water.
(b) The lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet.
(c) The clouds in the sky.
(d) The shark circling the boat.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who commands the tiny boat?
2. Why do the oiler and correspondent sit on the same seat?
3. What does the captain try to do to their intruders?
4. Why do the men row?
5. What does the captain remind the other men?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part 4, where does the captain instruct the others to take the boat, and why?
2. What is the cook doing in Part 1?
3. What happens after the sail is constructed, and how do the four men feel about it?
4. Who is the captain of the boat, and what is his crew comprised of?
5. What does the correspondent think as he tries to swim to the captain after escaping the current?
6. What taunts the four men, and why?
7. What do the four men see at the beginning of Part 4, and what do they think is odd?
8. Why does the chance of survival seem optimistic at best?
9. What thoughts do the four men keep to themselves?
10. Throughout their adventure, how does the relationship between the four men change, and why?
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