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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 does Beanpole decide might help the two boys get some food?
(a) Work for dinner.
(b) Look for berries in the woods.
(c) Steal from the market.
(d) Act like a vagrant.

2. What does the boys' guide do when they reach the docks?
(a) Leaves to return to the camps.
(b) Boards a ship.
(c) Goes into town.
(d) Stays with them.

3. How many days early do the boys arrive at the docks?
(a) Three days.
(b) Two days.
(c) One day.
(d) Five days.

4. Who did Will have to kill while he, Henry, and Beanpole were traveling?
(a) A Tripod.
(b) A mountain lion.
(c) A rabid dog.
(d) A criminal.

5. What do the boys realize by lunch time?
(a) They are out of shape.
(b) They don't know what they are doing.
(c) The man on the island won't take him anywhere until all the work is done.
(d) They enjoy this kind of work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Will go to look for Moritz?

2. Where does the island man take the boys after breakfast?

3. What happened at the first house on whose door Beanpole knocked for food?

4. Why is Beanpole worried about his practice?

5. What do the captain and the first mate wear on their heads?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the boys get away from the man?

2. What does the man say when he answers the boys' question?

3. Who elects to stay below deck first and where do they stay?

4. Why are Will, Henry, and Beanpole working so hard and at what are they working?

5. Why does Moritz become concerned when they stop at a small village?

6. How did the boys sleep that night and how do they wake up?

7. How does Will treat Fritz and how does Fritz respond? How does Will feel about Fritz's response?

8. How did Will and his friends learn about White Mountain?

9. What does Will see on his first day on deck and how does he feel about it?

10. What does the person the boys see do and what do they ask him?

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