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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is rowing when the lighthouse comes into view?

2. What are the men facing in Part 2?

3. What do the men use as a mast?

4. What is in better view towards the end of Part 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene at the beginning of Part 1.

2. What thoughts do the four men refrain from sharing at the beginning of Part 6?

3. What role do the seagulls play in Part 2?

4. How does the captain try to calm the other three men?

5. What does the shark do?

6. Throughout their adventure, how does the relationship between the four men change, and why?

7. What do the oiler and correspondent take turns doing, and how?

8. What is the cook doing in Part 1?

9. What does the correspondent think about nature in Part 7?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the oiler being the only character who is named and the only character who dies?

Essay Topic 2

How does the friendship between the four men affect the story?

Essay Topic 3

How can Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" be read as an antithesis to Darwinism?

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