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WorksheetsShipwreck at the Bottom of the World
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Shackleton is which of the following?
A Polar Explorer
A doctor
A whaler
A ship builder
What was the name of Shackleton's ship?
Nina
Dover
Corrine
Endurance
What makes the Antarctic so dangerous?
floes
icebergs
sea creatures
all of the above
In spite of his anxiety, he tried to keep up the appearance of calm in order to maintain morale. Although tortured by worry, he remained outwardly unperturbed.
What does the word morale mean?
Fearful and weak
Feeling good and optimistic. Keeping up the spirits of the men.
He was shy and embarrassed
Shackleton describes in his journal the horrific event when the ice flow cracks and one of his men slips through into the ocean. Before this event occurs, Shackleton writes, “An intangible feeling of uneasiness made me leave my tent about 11 P.M.” (79).
What does the word intangible mean?
Something that is invisible or not concrete; it is not material but can still be sensed.
Knowing how something feels physically
When the mean were sleeping who did Shackleton see fall through the ice?
Worsley
Endurance
Ernest Holness
Captain Smith
"In spite of our troubles and losing sleep the whole party was in good spirits, for, at last, we had exchanged inaction for action."We had been drifting and the mercy of the ice pack. There had been nothing that we could do to escape."
Are the men in high or low morale?
High morale
Low morale
"It was a magnificent and beautiful a sight as I have ever seen. But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence."
What was Worsley describing at this moment?
The huge waves of the ocean pushing floes into each other
Whales fighting each other
They were able to see the northern lights
They were being attacked by a seal
Did an ocean current drive the men backwards that they were farther away from their destination?
True
False
Where was the destination that Shackleton and the men were trying to reach?
Grace Island
Elephant Island
Coney Island
Wilde Island
While traveling to Elephant Island and being on the small boats for days, did the men think they would die and never make it home?
True
False
Did Shackleton let the youngest crew member Blackbarrow to do do the honor of first landing on Elephant Island?
True
False
Now that the Shackleton and the men reached dry land what did Shackleton and Worsley realize that they had to do?
Makes houses to learn how to live in Antartica
One of them had to travel 800 miles to get rescue at Georgia Island.
Go back through the winter storms to reach the South American coast.
