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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a particularly cowardly performance by Queeg, Keefer calls him a what?
(a) Despicable.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Yellow-bellied coward.
(d) Poltroon.

2. Who receives orders transferring them off the Caine?
(a) Queeg.
(b) Keefer.
(c) Rabbitt.
(d) Harding.

3. Keefer labels Queeg as a what?
(a) A psychopathic personality.
(b) A split personality.
(c) A major depressive personality.
(d) A sociopath.

4. What is "Chadan"?
(a) It's the name of Tom's roommate.
(b) It means the captain's coming.
(c) It means time to eat or chow down.
(d) It's a Navy word for deck duty.

5. After one of the sailors is reassigned, how long does Queeg stay in his cabin?
(a) Eleven days.
(b) Two days.
(c) A week.
(d) Two weeks.

6. While on shore leave in San Francisco, where does Willie take May?
(a) Yosemite.
(b) Oakland.
(c) Napa Valley.
(d) China Town.

7. When Maryk asks Keefer to go with him to see the medical officer of the Pluto, how does Keefer respond?
(a) He's evasive and won't give a straight answer.
(b) He refuses to go.
(c) He says he'll go as soon as Queeg is asleep.
(d) He goes with him right away.

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

9. What subject does Willie's roommate teach in school?
(a) Literature.
(b) Biology.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Algebra.

10. 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.

11. What type of place is Willie's family home?
(a) A twelve room Dutch colonial.
(b) A modern apartment on the upper east side of Manhattan.
(c) A Tudor style estate on 10 acres.
(d) A modest Cape Cod bungalow.

12. What does the Red Cross letter say about Stilwell's mother?
(a) That she is sick but not dying.
(b) That she has already died.
(c) That she is on the verge of death.
(d) That she isn't dying.

13. What is the name of the officer who reprimands Captain Queeg?
(a) Captain Mercy.
(b) Captain Faith.
(c) Captain Grace.
(d) Captain Hope.

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

15. Instead of Queeg, who gets reassigned from the Caine?
(a) Maryk.
(b) Stilwell.
(c) Horrible.
(d) Ducely.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Tom Keefer's book?

2. Who comes to Willie in Chapter 15 asking if his six months restriction to the ship counts in San Francisco?

3. Which game do Willie and Keggs play aboard the Moulton?

4. What do the sailors give De Vriess as a send off gift?

5. In Chapter 21, where does the Caine receive orders to go?

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