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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 happens to Queeg's illegal liquor stash?
(a) The sailors drop it, and the bottles break.
(b) It's delivered safe and sound in the special crate that Langhorne built.
(c) It gets dropped overboard into the bay.
(d) Someone breaks into the stash and steals several bottles.

2. Willie starts obsessing about what one night during watch in Chapter 24?
(a) His father.
(b) An ice cream scoop.
(c) A monogrammed coffee mug.
(d) May.

3. Who disagrees with Queeg's handling of the attack of the Stanfield?
(a) Stilwell.
(b) Willie.
(c) Keefer.
(d) Harding.

4. What is the name of Keefer's date?
(a) Lily Loom.
(b) May Wynn.
(c) Tootsie Weaver.
(d) Rollete Baskinworth.

5. When the Caine is finally ready to go out in open waters with its new captain, what book does Captain Queeg bring with him to the bridge?
(a) Goethe's "Faust."
(b) "On a Destroyer's Bridge."
(c) "Moby Dick."
(d) One of Captain de Vriess' mysteries.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who aboard the Caine adopts a huge crab?

2. How many hours of emergency leave does Maryk give Stilwell?

3. What officer visits the Caine in Chapter 21?

4. Instead of Queeg, who gets reassigned from the Caine?

5. Queeg insists the men will not dehydrate because they will get enough water from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the circle of compliance.

2. What is Keefer's testimony like?

3. What happens when the news of Japan's surrender is heard?

4. What does Barney talk about during his toast at the celebration dinner?

5. What happens while Willie is distracted and watching Maryk swim out to recover the float?

6. Challee asks Willie for specific examples of Queeg's odd behavior. Name some.

7. What is Willie's role in Stilwell's court martial?

8. Why won't Queeg let Keefer leave the Caine to go visit his brother?

9. What are some of the quirky ways in which the crew begins to respond to their own boredom?

10. Tom Keefer explains his philosophy of the Navy to Willie. What is it?

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