A Night to Remember, Walter Lord
Chapter Comprehension Questions
Answer all questions in complete sentences on looseleaf in your English
scribblers.
Chapter I
1. Describe the first sighting of the iceberg (time, person, location etc.)
2. What was the meaning of a ABelfast trip@? What did the crew think the
noise was?
3. What did officer Victor Groves of the Californian see at 11:10a.m. April
14th?
Chapter II
4. What group of passengers was the first to play with the ice aboard the
Titanic?
5. Explain the irony of Officer Evan=s and 3rd Officer Groves= actions
aboard the Californian. (Page 29-30)
Chapter III
6. Write down at least three material things that the passengers took with
them as they left for the lifeboats when the knew the boat was sinking.
7. In this chapter, what do we learn about the number of lifeboats in
relation to the number of passengers?
8. What does ACQD@ mean? What do we use instead of this now?
Chapter IV
9. How many people were in lifeboat number 1 as it was lowered into the
ocean? How many could it have held?
10. Explain how 1st, 2nd, and 3rd class passengers were treated differently
when it came to the use of lifeboats.
Chapter V
11. How many people remained to use the last lifeboat?
Chapter VI
12. On page 90, what was Captain Smith thinking about as the Titanic
continued to sink?
13. What was Thomas Andrews doing as the boat was sinking?
14. Name any six of the strange cargo items that the Titanic was carrying
the night of the disaster.
15. What Acrime@ did Officers Phillips and Groves commit in the wireless
shack just before they fled?
Chapter VII
16. How many women in each class perished?
17. How was racism brought out by the survivors= stories?
Chapter VIII
18. Describe the atmosphere aboard lifeboat # 1 as they waited for help.
Chapter IX
19. What did the Carpathia=s passengers think was happening?
Chapter X
20. Explain J. Bruce Ismay=s behaviour / actions aboard the Carpathia.
21. What is fate? People say the Titanic disaster was a matter of fate, why
do they say this?
22. What do the numbers on the chart on page 177 tell us about the
survivors= memory?