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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 do the men do to gain assistance from the wind in Part 3?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Hide under the boat.
(c) Make a sail.
(d) Row the oars.

2. Why are these four men on the tiny boat?
(a) It is not explained.
(b) Their ship was destroyed by pirates.
(c) They are returning from an expedition for gold.
(d) They were out fishing and got caught in the storm.

3. Whose nature is naturally more cynical than the others'?
(a) The cook.
(b) The captain.
(c) The oiler.
(d) The correspondent.

4. Where are the four men headed?
(a) Europe.
(b) The Bahamas.
(c) It is not explained.
(d) North America.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is on the boat besides the cook, oiler, and captain?

2. Who calms the dispute towards the end of Part 1?

3. What aims at the captain's head?

4. What do the men search the shoreline for?

5. What do the correspondent and his rowing partner use to row?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the correspondent see when he wakes at the beginning of Part 7?

2. When the boat is deluged again, what does the captain tell the others to do, and why?

3. What does the correspondent think would happen in different circumstances as he sees the shark?

4. Why do the men's hopes not sink at the beginning of Part 4?

5. What is the oiler doing in Part 1?

6. After the oiler takes the correspondent's place at the oars in Part 6, what does the captain tell the cook to do, and why?

7. What do the correspondent and cook argue about at the end of Part 1, and how is their dispute ended?

8. What would the men think if they could view their situation from a different vantage point?

9. What happens after the sail is constructed, and how do the four men feel about it?

10. What does the sight of the lighthouse do to the four men?

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