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Question #1
Which of the following occupations is not represented in the dinghy?
A.   captain
B.   whaler
C.   oiler
D.   cook
Question #2
What is the captain’s mental state while riding in the bow of the dinghy?
A.   The captain is dejected because he has lost his boat and did not “go down with the ship.”
B.   The captain is thankful he has survived the shipwreck and has been able to save some of the crew.
C.   The captain is surprised that the ship foundered on some unmarked shoals off the coast of Georgia.
D.   The captain is angry that most of his crew mutinied against him and a few loyal followers.
Question #3
What is the first plan for rescue that the four men devise?
A.   They will row in a straight line toward shore as soon as possible.
B.   They plan to row to St. Augustine since it is due south of their location.
C.   They hope that the crew of a nearby life-saving station will notice them.
D.   They plan to reach the Mosquito Inlet lighthouse since it is directly east.
Question #4
What argument do the cook and correspondent have during their first day in the lifeboat?
A.   They argue about where they are located relative to the shoreline since they entered the dinghy in the dark.
B.   They argue about why the correspondent should have to row but the cook does not have to do so.
C.   They argue about whether they should attempt to rescue any of the other shipwrecked sailors.
D.   They argue about the difference between a life-saving station and house of refuge.
Question #5
How do the four men find themselves in a lifeboat in the first place?
A.   They rowed one of many lifeboats away from a sinking steamboat.
B.   They drew lots for spaces aboard the last available lifeboat on the sinking ship.
C.   The captain and a few loyal supporters were set adrift by a mutinous crew.
D.   They were the only ones to survive a boiler explosion on a steamboat.
Question #6
What do the captain and the cook do to give the oiler and the correspondent a break from rowing?
A.   They make a sail from a jacket and an oar.
B.   They decide to let the dinghy float freely.
C.   They fix the broken outboard motor.
D.   Both men take turns rowing the dinghy.
Question #7
Which of the following does the man that they see on shore—standing on the steps of the omnibus—do?
A.   He belongs to the search party and runs to tell his squad about the lifeboat.
B.   He waves his hands in the air to signal the men to head north away from the rocks.
C.   He waves his coat, but the men don’t understand what he means to tell them.
D.   He waves a flag cheerfully at the men because he thinks that they are fishermen.
Question #8
After the others have dropped off to sleep, the correspondent hears “a long, loud swishing astern of the boat” … and sees that “a gleaming trail of phosphorescence, like blue flame, was furrowed on the black waters. It might have been made by a monstrous knife.” What had the correspondent encountered?
A.   He saw the tail of a mermaid playing around the boat.
B.   He saw the aftermath of one of the men falling overboard.
C.   He saw the fin of a shark in the ocean.
D.   He experienced a hallucination that has no meaning.
Question #9
When dawn arrives after the first night, what plan do the captain and crew decide to carry out?
A.   They plan to row into the surf near the shore until the boat sinks, then swim to land.
B.   They plan to row back to sea and await a rescue party because they are getting weak.
C.   They plan to row parallel to shore and try to get another person’s attention on shore.
D.   They plan to turn around and row for the lighthouse that they saw the previous night.
Question #10
Which of the four men does not survive the swim to shore?
A.   The cook
B.   The captain
C.   The oiler
D.   The correspondent

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