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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 is pitch-poling?
(a) Capsizing front-first.
(b) Capsizing side-first.
(c) Using a spar to hold out the sails in light air.
(d) Putting the wind dead astern.

2. What are reef points?
(a) The moment in a gale when he would reef sails.
(b) Buoys that mark reefs.
(c) The point at which the mast hits the water in a knockdown.
(d) Lines to reduce sail area.

3. What did Moitessier feel accused of, now that he was back in civilization?
(a) Radicalism
(b) Laziness.
(c) Greed.
(d) Exceptionalism.

4. What was Moitessier wondering about when he rounded the Horn?
(a) His childhood home.
(b) The prize money from the race.
(c) Nigel's trimaran.
(d) His wife's birthday.

5. Where on the Beaufort scale was the wind as Moitessier approached Cape Horn?
(a) Force 7.
(b) Force 3.
(c) Force 8.
(d) Force 6.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Moitessier think of the bulldozers and concrete mixers?

2. What did Moitessier do when he was on deck as he approached Cape Horn?

3. What were conditions like as Moitessier was approaching Capetown for the second time?

4. What book was Moitessier reading in which characters debated a passage in the Bible?

5. What distinction does Cape Horn have of the three capes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the mysterious glowing balls Moitessier encountered.

2. Describe Moitessier's attempt to give word of his progress in the Falklands.

3. What was Moitessier thinking about in his reading of Steinbeck's East of Eden?

4. What path did Moitessier take approaching Cape Horn?

5. Describe Moitessier's self-steering system, and when he would use it.

6. What was Moitessier reading as he approached Cape Horn?

7. What was Moitessier thinking about as he reached the path of his original transit from Trinidad to the Cape of Good Hope?

8. Describe the weather as Moitessier was approaching Cape Horn.

9. What did Moitessier dream after he passed the Falklands?

10. What is heaving-to?

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