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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Slocum was offered a job aboard the experimental gunboat called:
(a) Destroyer.
(b) Sluice.
(c) Victory.
(d) Harbinger.

2. Slocum details his experiences with a civilized little _____.
(a) Carp.
(b) Sea gull.
(c) Shark.
(d) Spider.

3. What is bacalhao?
(a) Knife.
(b) Shoe.
(c) Mast.
(d) Fish.

4. Slocum would eventually follow the route of which famous explorer?
(a) Erikson.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Magellan.
(d) Vespucci.

5. The man was which type of captain?
(a) Football.
(b) Navy.
(c) Coast Guard.
(d) Whaling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Slocum talks about the unusual "rain of ____."

2. The author states that the Pacific is more ______ than any other ocean.

3. Slocum had always longed to be a:

4. Slocum says his father could make anything as long as he had which of the following:

5. How many female students accompanied the teachers?

(see the answer key)

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