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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. What type of boat is the note writer in Chapter One aboard?
(a) A ketch.
(b) A dinghy.
(c) A schooner.
(d) A pontoon.

2. According to Junger, who were the first to invent long line boats?
(a) The Canadians.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Koreans.
(d) The French.

3. What group, if any, provides Sebastian Junger with the basis upon which he creates the tragedy that strikes the Andrea Gail?
(a) No group. Sebastian Junger creates the events surrounding the tragedy that struck aboard the Andrea Gail.
(b) Support group comprised of family members who lost loved ones aboard the Andrea Gail.
(c) Local fishermen who have survived similar storms.
(d) The United States Coast Guard which grants Junger access to a collection of incident reports detailing ship disasters in the same area where disaster hits the Andrea Gail.

4. Which of the following sites are mentioned in Chapter Three as being two of the most dangerous places to fish?
(a) Boston Port and Fairhaven Port.
(b) Gloucester Port and Boston Port.
(c) Gloucester Port and Fairhaven Port.
(d) Grand Banks and Georges Bank.

5. What year is the note in a bottle found that is mentioned in Chapter One?
(a) The note in the bottle was found in 1899.
(b) The note in the bottle was found in 1897.
(c) The note in the bottle was found in 1891.
(d) The note in the bottle was found in 1895.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ethel Shatford, the mother of Andrea Gail crew member Bobby Shatford works as a bartender at which of the taverns listed?

2. According to the note found in a bottle in Chapter One, what parts of its boat of origin are missing?

3. Why does Adam Randall decide not to join the crew of the Andrea Gail on the particular fishing trip described in "The Perfect Storm"?

4. Select the phrase that corresponds to the label attached to fishing around the village from which the Andrea Gail sets sail.

5. Who is the captain of the Andrea Gail?

Short Essay Questions

1. Aside from wanting to report the destruction and imminent sinking of his ship, what other reasons could the writer of the note found in a bottle along the coast of Massachusetts in 1895 have had for writing the note and placing it in a bottle?

2. How are fishermen characterized in "The Perfect Storm"?

3. Pursuant to a description in Chapter 4, if you were to have taken a tour around the Andrea Gail prior to its ill-fated trip, what would you have been likely to see?

4. What happened when the United States government relaxed standards for mercury?

5. What type of genre does Sebastian Junger drift to in his writing of "The Perfect Storm"?

6. How much is considered a good day's catch?

7. What type of impression does Sebastian Junger make when he states that he intends to base his writing of "The Perfect Storm" solely on fact?

8. Why does Junger raise questions about Captain Billy Tyne's competence?

9. Why is it likely that Sebastian Junger may have felt compelled to state that his use of the term, "Perfect Storm" was limited to a meteorological sense?

10. What is the vision that author Sebastian Junger has for "The Perfect Storm"?

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