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    There are four men in an open boat after a shipwreck. The men come from different occupations - the oiler, the cook, the correspondent, and the captain. They struggle against the sea but survive the ordeal. The questions assess details about the characters, their perspectives, symbols in the story, and how many men die, as the story is about their fight to survive after being cast into the open sea.

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    There are four men in an open boat after a shipwreck. The men come from different occupations - the oiler, the cook, the correspondent, and the captain. They struggle against the sea but survive the ordeal. The questions assess details about the characters, their perspectives, symbols in the story, and how many men die, as the story is about their fight to survive after being cast into the open sea.

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    There are four men in an open boat after a shipwreck. The men come from different occupations - the oiler, the cook, the correspondent, and the captain. They struggle against the sea but survive the ordeal. The questions assess details about the characters, their perspectives, symbols in the story, and how many men die, as the story is about their fight to survive after being cast into the open sea.

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    The Open Boat – Comprehension Questions

    Name: __________________________

    1. How many men are in the boat?

    2. What is the occupation of each man in the boat?

    3. What is the difference between a house of refuge and a life-saving station?

    4. Though the story is not written in first person, from which character’s perspective is
    the story written (i.e. whose eyes are we “the reader” looking through)? How does that
    make sense given who the author is?

    5. Which of the four characters would you most like to be? Why?
    6. Who/what is the correspondent raging against when he says “If I am to be drowned…”
    What is his main complaint?

    7. What did the correspondent think Nature was? Not “cruel, beneficent, or wise…”

    8. What could be the symbolism of the man rushing to save them?

    9. How many men die in this story?

    10. What did you like about this story? What did you dislike about this story?

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