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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. 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.

2. What does the family decide to call the bay where they first came ashore?
(a) Safety Bay.
(b) Oyster Bay.
(c) Lobster Bay.
(d) Shark Bay.

3. What do the narrator and his wife decide the family's first priority should be?
(a) Locating a source of fresh water.
(b) Making a more secure home.
(c) Taking inventory of their survival supplies.
(d) Searching for other survivors.

4. What suggestion does Fritz make about their barrel boat?
(a) That they create outriggers to stabilize it.
(b) That they attach a mast and sail.
(c) That they scrap it in favor of a flat raft.
(d) That they seal the barrels with sap.

5. Who thinks of eating their soup from oyster shells?
(a) Elizabeth.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Ernest.
(d) Jack.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 7, "Bread," why is the narrator irritated with Jack and Ernest?

2. In Chapter 9, "A Growing Menagerie," what important substance does Fritz discover a supply of?

3. Whose idea is it to make the boat out of barrels?

4. How does the narrator get the first rope over the branch of the tree that they want to build their home in?

5. What do they make their swimming belts from?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the narrator finds the karatas plant, what does he ask Ernest, and what does his motivation for the question seem to be?

2. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what happens as a result of Ernest's discovery of manioc root?

3. What problem occurs when the family tries to launch their barrel boat, and how do they solve it?

4. When Ernest finds oysters and salt, what is the narrator's response?

5. In Chapter 4, "Back to the Wreck," how does Elizabeth react when Jack and Ernest fail to shoot the birds when they are traveling through the tall grass?

6. Before they leave the ship, what does the narrator convince Elizabeth to do, and why does she object at first?

7. When the narrator finally agrees to build a treehouse, what does he say he will do with their original camping site?

8. In Chapter 7, "Bread," what is convenient about Jack's discovery of clay?

9. When the narrator wakes Ernest early, what is his reasoning, and how does Ernest respond?

10. In Chapter 8, "The Pinnace," what has Elizabeth been doing while most of the family works on the pinnace, and what does she want the family to do next?

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