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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "The Best Goddamned Target-Towing Ship" | Chapter 14, "Queeg on the Carpet".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens on Bilging Day?
(a) Keith fails the rifle reassembly.
(b) Keggs gets bilged.
(c) Keith makes the highest score.
(d) Keefer makes the highest score.

2. Willie is assigned a bunk in the clip shack, a metal box on the main deck. How hot is it in the clip shack?
(a) 105 degrees.
(b) 75 degrees.
(c) 89 degrees.
(d) The same as it is on deck.

3. How many midshipmen gather for the review of the troops?
(a) 1,000.
(b) 200.
(c) Everyone in Furnald Hall.
(d) 2,500.

4. Of the 112 publications carried aboard the Caine, how many do they use?
(a) 57.
(b) 6.
(c) 22.
(d) 75.

5. In Chapter 7, who does Willie find out is assigned to the Caine?
(a) Keggs.
(b) Keefer's brother, Tom.
(c) May Wynn's brother, Frank.
(d) Ensign Brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Willie attend college?

2. What does Harding vomit into?

3. What is the name of the officer who reprimands Captain Queeg?

4. What type of place is Willie's family home?

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?

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