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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 7 ("Bread") through Chapter 9 ("A Growing Managerie").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's usual criticism of Jack?
(a) He is too emotional.
(b) He has a quick temper.
(c) He spends too much time thinking.
(d) He is immature and impulsive.

2. What kind of animals are Turk and Juno?
(a) Cows.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Pigs.

3. When the narrator sees the tall, arching roots of the trees where they are going to build their home, what kind of tree does he say they are?
(a) Kauris.
(b) Baobabs.
(c) Mangroves.
(d) Catalpas.

4. How does the family end up alone on the ship?
(a) Elizabeth insists on going back below for the family Bible.
(b) The family has trouble locating Franz.
(c) The family is asleep when the order is given to take to the lifeboats.
(d) The sailors get into the lifeboats and abandon them.

5. In Chapter 7, "Bread," when the family sleeps in one morning, what is the narrator's response?
(a) He says it is only natural when there are no clocks.
(b) He threatens to take away their mattresses.
(c) He suggests that they may have been working too hard.
(d) He prays for God to make them less slothful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two kinds of birds does the family first spot living along the shore?

2. What does the narrator decide they need to build before they can build the treehouse?

3. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what does the narrator use tobacco grinders for?

4. Just as the narrator and Fritz are about to leave camp to explore for the first time, what does he suddenly remember that they have forgotten?

5. What creatures does Jack mistake for "little people" (103)?

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