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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. How much money does Mrs. Keith give the chief?
(a) $60.
(b) $50.
(c) $20.
(d) $100.

2. What is Willie's first assignment for his officers' qualification course?
(a) To make two sketches of the Caine.
(b) To list every man assigned to the ship.
(c) To write an essay on the history of the ship.
(d) To assemble and disassemble his rifle.

3. 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) 89 degrees.
(b) 105 degrees.
(c) 75 degrees.
(d) The same as it is on deck.

4. What does the Caine lose on its very first target towing duty trip?
(a) A target.
(b) The manual for the bridge.
(c) Its anchor.
(d) The boatswain.

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) One of Captain de Vriess' mysteries.
(c) "Moby Dick."
(d) "On a Destroyer's Bridge."

Short Answer Questions

1. May Wynn auditions by singing a song by which composer?

2. What does the Navy find during Willie's physical?

3. What two personal items does Willie have when he unpacks in San Francisco?

4. Willie doesn't really understand the language surrounding the maneuvers. What is one of the names that Carmody mentions?

5. What does Keith have to do to retrieve his gun's spring?

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