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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. Who is injured?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The cook.

2. What does the correspondent argue about?
(a) Whether they will survive.
(b) The difference between a life-saving station and a house of refuge.
(c) Who will fix dinner.
(d) When they will be rescued.

3. Who calms the dispute towards the end of Part 1?
(a) The correspondent.
(b) The oiler.
(c) The captain.
(d) The cook.

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

5. What suggests the men have been on a noteworthy trip?
(a) The presence of the correspondent.
(b) Their eagerness to reach safety.
(c) The presence of the captain.
(d) Their nice clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the men learn quickly?

2. What does the captain try to do to their intruders?

3. How did the injured character sustain his injuries?

4. What does the sun transform the ocean into in Part 2?

5. What is the oiler doing at the beginning of the novel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the captain doing in Part 1?

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

3. What is unknown or unclear about the men's situation?

4. 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?

5. What is the only thing that the correspondent can do in Part 5 while the shark is present?

6. What does the shark do?

7. What taunts the four men, and why?

8. Describe the actions of the man onshore while the four men are swimming toward shore.

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

10. What do the four men see at the beginning of Part 4, and what do they think is odd?

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