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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can become useless in a typhoon?
(a) The compass.
(b) The weather vane.
(c) A rudder.
(d) The engines.

2. What reason does Willie give for Stilwell's mental collapse?
(a) The boat almost going down in the typhoon.
(b) Queeg's persecution.
(c) His stateside leave being suspended.
(d) The loss of his marriage.

3. According to Willie's testimony, how did he know Queeg was terrified during the typhoon?
(a) He left his post on the bridge.
(b) His face was green and petrified with terror.
(c) He curled up and started screaming.
(d) He kept yelling orders.

4. The boats are trying to refuel while the waves are how tall?
(a) As tall as pine trees.
(b) As tall as a two story house.
(c) As tall as apartment houses.
(d) As tall as the battleships they were traveling with.

5. How many unopened bottles of champagne were there at the end of the party?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

6. To what does Bird compare Queeg's ball rolling?
(a) Fondling poisonous pellets of feces.
(b) A compensation for his lack of courage.
(c) Two people arguing.
(d) A subconscious effort to be in charge.

7. What finally gets Queeg to admit to the crate full of liquor?
(a) Barney corners him and threatens a court martial.
(b) Barney offers to call the carpenter's mate who built it.
(c) Barney tells Queeg he'll bring the men in one by one to testify.
(d) Barney threatens to have it retrieved from the bay and brought in.

8. On the way to Admiral Halsey's ship, the men see a lot of what?
(a) Sailors sunbathing.
(b) Japanese planes.
(c) Dolphins.
(d) Gray jellyfish.

9. Who is the last Captain of the Caine?
(a) Captain Queeg.
(b) Tom Keefer.
(c) Willie Keith.
(d) Captain White.

10. Who said Willie would be okay after his behind had been kicked bloody?
(a) Captain Queeg.
(b) Mr. Keith.
(c) Captain De Vriess.
(d) Maryk.

11. What recurring dream does Willie remember from his childhood?
(a) A giant serpent eating him.
(b) A ship sinking in a typhoon.
(c) Showing up for school without clothes.
(d) God as a jack-in-the-box.

12. Who expects to prove Maryk guilty?
(a) Captain Blakely.
(b) Lieutenant Greenwald.
(c) Lieutenant Commander Challee.
(d) Captain Breakstone.

13. What does Greenwald do during his toast to Keefer?
(a) He spits in Keefer's face.
(b) He congratulates him on his book.
(c) He throws a glass of wine in Keefer's face.
(d) He holds up the acquittal notice.

14. Who puts a pair of steel balls on Keefer's bed?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Urban.
(c) Maryk.
(d) Keith.

15. Who tells Willie that the mess boys ate the strawberries?
(a) Harding.
(b) Maryk.
(c) Keefer.
(d) Ducely.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days before the war ends does the Caine finally sweep a mine?

2. What does Barney get Dr. Lundeen to admit is the problem with Queeg?

3. After midnight on the day of the Kamikaze attack, what does Willie do?

4. What is the name of the typhoon approaching the Caine in Chapter 27?

5. From which book does this quote come? "Life is a dream, a little more coherent than most."

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